...Bob Perelman This essay reviews the publication of Larry Eigner’s selected poems and provides an introduction to Eigner (1927–96) and his place in US poetry. It gives an account of his life, describing his lifelong disability from cerebral palsy and the trajectory of his poetic career, which ended...

... the theory need not be extrinsic to the poetry,” and therefore the fetter of a “normalized, expository style” could be discarded (Hejinian 2000: 25). Fittingly, the first issue in February 1978 begins with a piece by Larry Eigner, written in a Stein-esque­ prose, ask- ing questions about...