A CORRESPONDENCE

Artist The Alternative Press

Artist Lyn Hejinian

Date1977

MediumLetterpress on cardstock

DimensionsPaper Size: 11 × 7 7/8 in. (27.9 × 20 cm)

ClassificationsPrint

Credit LineGift of Gary Eleinko, 2023

Object numberUAC7444.10

DescriptionLetterpress printed poem by Lyn Hejinian, titled "A CORRESPONDENCE"

"A CORRESPONANCE
(for Douglas Hall who first pointed out the process: that it's all around)

as this letter
is tending (also tender
pull of the word
handful of ink
(signature of the aboriginies
no final versions
and no closing
…
as, continuing,
the words ...
Footfall. that word.
no last exploration
Exploration of articulate places:
The true and literal travelogue, Ideas, and what one can, or
is willing to, relate of the personal (satisfying some level
of curiousity at least; at the most, giving as best as
words can a description of the life of which the words are
the given instance).

Like that.

Published by The Alternative Press, Issue Number 7.