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Larry Eigner (1927-1996), born with cerebral palsy, was an active and significant figure for the New American Poets of the 1950s and 1960s, particularly with the Black Mountain School. While his writing has been overshadowed by his contemporaries, such as Charles Olson and Robert Creeley, Eigner's work has had a significant influence on generations of poets as he was at the center of the development of a postmodern poetics. The essays in this collection examine the breadth of Eigner's interests and influence, considering issues pertaining to ecopoetics, race and ethnicity, disability, technology, media, soundscapes, phenomenology, and popular culture. This book promises to be a foundational text for Eigner studies as well as an important addition to critical work about twentieth-century poetry and poetics. Momentous Inconclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner is a valuable contribution to scholars in the field and to academics researching the intersection of disability studies and poetics.

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This anthology brings Eigner into the present by looking beyond those associations (with the New American Poets) to recent developments in cultural theory, ecopoetics, phenomenology, and disability. With Momentous Inconclusions we have a capacious critical overview of a poet who was by no means limited in his intellectual and physical life but lived, as he says, in 'the endless / Room at the center.'--Michael Davidson, author of Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic The first book on a major, though underdiscussed, late twentieth-century poet, this work is original and timely. Momentous Inconclusions is thorough, well-constructed, and coherent, and it accomplishes two of the most fundamental goals of such a volume: it makes me want to read more Eigner, and it makes me a better reader and teacher of his work.--Alan Golding, author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry

This anthology brings Eigner into the present by looking beyond those associations (with the New American Poets) to recent developments in cultural theory, ecopoetics, phenomenology, and disability. With Momentous Inconclusions we have a capacious critical overview of a poet who was by no means limited in his intellectual and physical life but lived, as he says, in 'the endless / Room at the center.' --Michael Davidson, author of Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic The first book on a major, though underdiscussed, late twentieth-century poet, this work is original and timely. Momentous Inconclusions is thorough, well-constructed, and coherent, and it accomplishes two of the most fundamental goals of such a volume: it makes me want to read more Eigner, and it makes me a better reader and teacher of his work. --Alan Golding, author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry

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Jennifer Bartlett is the author of four books of poetry and the coeditor, with Michael Northen and Sheila Black, of Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. George Hart teaches English at California State University-Long Beach. He is the author of Inventing the Language to Tell It: Robinson Jeffers and the Biology of Consciousness.

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