Lyn Hejinian Read Bio Collapse
Poet, essayist, editor, and translator Lyn Hejinian is also the author and coauthor of several books. Hejinian has been the coeditor of Poetics Journal since 1981, was editor of Tuumba Press, and is codirector of the literary project Atelos. Honors include a Writing Fellowship from the California Arts Council, a grant from the Poetry Fund, an NEA Translation Fellowship (for her Russian translations), and a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets for distinguished poetic achievement. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
# 134
Let this begin, precipitously disturbed. There: its only alternative now is to continue, which is to say: there’s no real alternative at all. Skepticism—doubt: it can prove liberating: SKEPTICISM, says the motto, WILL KEEP YOU FREE. But it can lead to a sense of hopelessness, impossibility; it can seem to promise nothing but dead ends and fatigue: SKEPTICISM WILL EXHAUST YOU. Ergo, says the logician, freedom is exhausting.
