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Armantrout, Rae. "Lyn Hejinian's The Guard." A brief article in HOW(ever), Vol. 2, No. 2 (February, 1985)(removed from http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/print_archive/alerts0285.html)
Conte, Joseph. "The Smooth and the Striated: Compositional Texture in the Modern Long Poem." Conte remarks in this classic essay that 'The "striated texts" among twentieth-century long poems might include.... Lyn Hejinian's My Life (1987).' In Modern Language Studies 27 (Spring 1997): 57-71
Conte, Joseph. Professor Conte's syllabus for English 633: Poetic Texture: The Smooth and the Striated in Postmodern Poetry, Fall 2001
Perloff, Marjorie. "What Lyn Hejinian's Poetry Tells Us About Chance, Fortune and Pleasure," Boston Review, 2000
Perloff, Marjorie. "How Russian Is It: Lyn Hejinian's Oxota," at EPC (Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo)
Perloff, Marjorie. Perloff contrasts the modernist and postmodernist city in the works of James Joyce, Lyn Hejinian, and John Cage. " John Cage's Dublin, Lyn Hejinian's Leningrad: Poetic Cities as Cyberspaces," at EPC
Samuels, Lisa. "Eight Justifications for Canonizing Lyn Hejinian's My Life" at EPC
The Lyn Hejinian web page at the Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo
A very brief introduction to Lyn Hejinian from the Academy of American Poets
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