“The first book on a major, though underdiscussed, late twentieth-century poet, this work is original and timely. Momentous Inconclusions is thorough, well-constructed, and coherent, and it accomplishes two of the most fundamental goals of such a volume: it makes me want to read more Eigner, and it makes me a better reader and teacher of his work.”—Alan Golding, author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry
“This anthology brings Eigner into the present by looking beyond those associations [with the New American Poets] to recent developments in cultural theory, ecopoetics, phenomenology, and disability. With Momentous Inconclusions we have a capacious critical overview of a poet who was by no means limited in his intellectual and physical life but lived, as he says, in ‘the endless / Room at the center.’”—Michael Davidson, author of Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic
