"One major source of joy in reading My Life comes from the collision of various sentences and subjects. In that very collision--vaguely cubist or collagist--lies the humor and pleasure of this text, which is a kind of super-collider, a site for high-energy linguistic experimentation."--Hank Lazer, Archive Newsletter "To read the twenty-first-century iteration of Hejinian's poetic autobiography is to experience anew a poem that conceives of a life as an ever-unfolding process of recapitulations and echoes, expansions and contractions, discontinuities, recontextualizations, and accumulations. It presents life as a whole that is at once more than its constituent parts and yet incomplete and ongoing."--Tim Wood, Boston Review "Hejinian has for some time been noted for her love of rich textual surface effects, but never before has she found a method of construction so suited to its development."--Ron Silliman, San Francisco Review of Books "One major source of joy in reading My Life comes from the collision of various sentences and subjects. In that very collision--vaguely cubist or collagist--lies the humor and pleasure of this text, which is a kind of super-collider, a site for high-energy linguistic experimentation."--Hank Lazer, Archive Newsletter "My Life has so many good lines in it, it's like a trot, it makes you want to steal from it or perhaps annotate it and make the compliment (or complement) of imitating it.

"--Bernadette Mayer, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E.