Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Larry Eigner's Momentous Inconclusions
Jennifer Bartlett and George Hart
Part I. Place, Predecessors, and Projective Verse
Chapter One. "What Is Here and Now in the World": Larry Eigner's Perceptual Place Making
Marie Landau
Chapter Two. "My Nose on the Ground": Larry Eigner's Civil War
George Hart
Chapter Three. "People like Radios / Radios as People": Aural Form in the Poetry of Larry Eigner
Seth Forrest
Chapter Four. Poetry as a Scene of Decision: Larry Eigner as Distributed Author
Barrett Watten
Part II. Space and Time, Sight and Sound
Chapter Five. Larry Eigner's Televisual Impressionism
Andrew Rippeon
Chapter Six. Larry Eigner's Archives in Flight
Stephanie Anderson
Chapter Seven. What Sounds: Larry Eigner's Environments
Jonathan Skinner
Chapter Eight. Ways of Being Earthly: Sympoetic Ecopoesis and Birds in Larry Eigner's Poems
Linda Russo
Part III. Selected Letters: 1953-1992
A Note on Transcriptions
LE to Robert Creeley, 08/29/53
LE to Paul Blackburn, 05/06/54
LE to Janet Eigner, 07/02/63-07/07/63
LE to Denise Levertov, 10/15/63-10/18/63
LE to Robert Duncan, 12/29/69-01/01/70
LE to Jackson Mac Low, 03/31/70
LE to Ron Silliman, 10/21/72
LE to George Butterick, 06/04/74-06/09/74
LE to Joseph Eigner Family, 02/27/75-03/01/75
LE to Arthur MacFarland, 01/07/80
LE to Clayton Eshleman, 05/21/82
LE to "D..r folks (Mike, Paul)," 10/05/90-10/07/90
LE to Ruth Polansky Bloom, 08/03/92-08/05/92
Works Cited
Contributors
Index