{"id":72,"date":"2019-06-07T19:23:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T02:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/?page_id=72"},"modified":"2026-05-31T19:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:00:20","slug":"lyn-hejinian","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/essays\/lyn-hejinian\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyn Hejinian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dmd27.org\/glaser2018.html\">Cosmopolitanism and Internal Difference<\/a>&#8220;: on the brilliant, hilarious <em>My Life <\/em>of Lyn Hejinian as it contributes to the project of cosmopolitanism. The capacity to find what is strange about oneself may be a way towards a more meaningful global community.<\/p>\n<p>The readings demonstrate that this strangeness is a process of selfhood, not a state of selfhood &#8212; it exists in relation, in time, with a recursive rhythm. The conversation with conceptual poetry, which, as a confirmed outsider, I present here as an existential challenge to the spirit of dissociation of language poetry and its whole experimental tradition, is, I acknowledge, a bit stagy. I am, still, always trying to find my footing around the elitist avant garde. The real point here is that experiencing the self as a strange process can help the cosmopolitan project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cosmopolitanism and Internal Difference&#8220;: on the brilliant, hilarious My Life of Lyn Hejinian as it contributes to the project of cosmopolitanism. The capacity to find what is strange about oneself may be a way towards a more meaningful global community. The readings demonstrate that this strangeness is a process of selfhood, not a state of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-72","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}