Description: The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry
Review Quotes:
"Readers of Larry Eigner have eagerly awaited Jennifer Bartlett's biography of the poet, and based on my reading, it was worth the wait . . . Although Sustaining Air is about a literary figure, it is also a disability narrative about a poet whose cerebral palsy exerted a powerful influence on his life and work. Bartlett's understanding of disability issues and her own personal experience of living with disability give her special insight into Eigner's capabilities--and difficulties."
--Michael Davidson, author of Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic
"Sustaining Air: The Life of Larry Eigner, is a terrific book. I, as they say, couldn't put it down, finishing it in a day, and wishing for more." --The Booklyn Rail