Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
The first and only single-volume collection of Larry Eigner's most significant poems, gathering in one place the most celebrated of the several thousand poems that constitute his remarkable life's work
Review Quotes:
"[Calligraphy Typewriters] is a lovely book to hold and to look at. It too reproduces the signature appearance of Eigner's poems. It maintains their distinctive itineraries as they sally forth across the page from a lefthand margin to which they never return. The book is an essential introduction to Eigner's achievement and allows us to begin to account for what he was up to."
--Jacket2
"Following publication of the massive (and magnifcent) four-volume edition of
The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner, its two editors, Robert Grenier and Curtis Faville, set about the difficult task of making a selection of Eigner's poems for a volume that could be more handily used as a travel companion, or as a classroom text. Probably no one at this point knows Eigner's work better than Grenier and Faville, and their familiarity with it has allowed them to identify for inclusion in this book key works, indicative of the diverse moves and moods with which Eigner negotiated panoramas, corners, and crevices of the perceivable world. Eigner cast clarity onto the real, variously catching change at its precise swift moment and tracking the drift of slow specks of notability past the senses. The editors of
Calligraphy Typewriters: The Selected Poems of Larry Eigner have managed to intensify his oeuvre, even as they make it more available. The book reminds us always to attend to the live world that the senses activate and phrases ruffle."
--Lyn Hejinian
"For anyone interested in American poetry post-WW2 at its experimental, processual best, who was not able to pick up the set of Collected Volumes (very expensive indeed) or only owns a few (there were many!) of the small-press chapbooks books Larry Eigner published during his life-time, this is THE BOOK."
--Pierre Joris
