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The Shattered Language of Dreams in Lyn Hejinian’s The Book of a Thousand Eyes

International Journal of English Studies July 1, 2025 L. M. González Rodríguez

Lyn Hejinian, a prominent figure in Language poetry, is strongly committed to the task of dismantling poetic conventions by envisaging a new language that resists the constraints of linearity and referentiality. In The Book of a Thousand Eyes (2012), she explores the dream world in order to delve into the mechanics of the writing process, while playing with language and experience at various...