Larry Eigner information

Larry Eigner (August 7, 1927 – February 3, 1996), also known as Laurence Joel Eigner,^[1] was an American poet of the second half of the twentieth century and one of the principal figures of the Black Mountain School.^[2]

Eigner is associated with the Black Mountain poets and was influential among Language poets.^[3] Highlighting Eigner's influence on the "Language School" of poetry, his work often appeared in the journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and was featured on the front page of its inaugural issue in February 1978.

Ron Silliman dedicated the 1986 anthology of Language poetry, In the American Tree, to Eigner.^[4] In the introduction to In the American Tree, Silliman identifies Eigner as a poet who has "transcended the problematic constraints" of Olson's speech-based projectivist poetics.^[5] Eigner has himself pointed out that his poetry originates in 'thinking' rather than speech.^{[citation needed]}

During his lifetime, Eigner wrote dozens of books and published poems in more than 100 magazines and collections. Charles Bukowski once called him the "greatest living poet."^[6]

^ LCNAF on-line (Library of Congress Authority Files) lists Eigner's full name as Laurence Joel Eigner
^ and for many poets, including Eigner, this centered around Charles Olson at Black Mountain College in the mid-20th Century.
^ particularly Ron Silliman and Charles Bernstein, both of whom are on record as admirers of his work
^ Silliman, Ronald, ed. In the American Tree. Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 1986.
^ Silliman, Ronald, ed. In the American Tree. Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 1986. xvii.
^ "Bukowski's first published interview, by Arnold L. Kaye, Los Angeles Correspondent to the Chicago Literary Times, March, 1963". Bukowski.net. Retrieved 2018-02-17.

[1] LCNAF on-line (Library of Congress Authority Files) lists Eigner's full name as Laurence Joel Eigner

[2] r many poets, including Eigner, this centered around Charles Olson at Black Mountain College in the mid-20th Century.

[3] rticularly Ron Silliman and Charles Bernstein, both of whom are on record as admirers of his work

[4] Silliman, Ronald, ed. In the American Tree. Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 1986.

[5] Silliman, Ronald, ed. In the American Tree. Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 1986. xvii.

[6] "Bukowski's first published interview, by Arnold L. Kaye, Los Angeles Correspondent to the Chicago Literary Times, March, 1963". Bukowski.net. Retrieved 2018-02-17.

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