120:. Despite his impairments, Eigner's mother, Bessie, was an advocate for his education. Eigner began writing poetry around the age of 8, which he transcribed to his mother and brother, Richard. He attended middle school at Massachusetts Hospital School and completed high school and some college (at the University of Chicago) through correspondence. His first works were published at age 9. As he matured into an artist, Eigner overcame many physical obstacles and limitations to achieve a mastery over the material text, producing his typescripts on a 1940
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Larry Eigner's mature writing is perhaps the best (and most varied) fulfillment we have, to date, of tendencies and possibilities regarding the use of space in poetry gathered into and 'projected' out into the future of
American poetry by Olson's theory of composition by field."
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Eigner was able to "create shifting constellations of words in space whose musical and visual designs are realized in a language at once immediate and highly abstract
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have not shown the requisite fidelity to the spacing & visual presentation of Eigner's typescripts. In the comment section after the article, a coeditor of the
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offers extensive resources on Eigner's life to include reviews, descriptions, and a pdf file of editor Robert
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the physicality of each line is something that Ron
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in 1968 and long out of print, the text is presented here on-line and complete
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initiated by Steven Fama. Fama argues that the editors and publishers of the
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Jennifer Bartlett is currently working on a biography of Eigner.
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Eigners
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Born from the Head - Larry Eigner's 1st
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Concerto for the Left Hand; Disability and the Defamiliar Body
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Ron Silliman's first response to the publication of Eigner's
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and for many poets, including Eigner, this centered around
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This online essay makes up Chapter 5 of poet and scholar
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Missing Larry: The Poetics of Disability in Larry Eigner
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this essay is by Curtis Faville, who coedited Eigner's
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Larry Eigner authored more than 40 books, among them
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30:(August 7, 1927 – February 3, 1996), also known as
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