Sustaining Air: The Life of Larry Eigner

by Jennifer Bartlett

The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry

The poet Larry Eigner (1927-1996) was a key figure in New American poetry, which grew out of the Black Mountain School and San Francisco Renaissance, and a major influence on the Language poets. Eigner also had cerebral palsy as the result of an accident at birth. It is fortuitous that the poet lived his life in two locations vibrant in both poetics and disability activism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817360816
• ISBN13: 9780817360818
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: University of Alabama Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"