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    A Study Guide for Lyn Hejinian's "yet we insist that life is full of happy chance"
    A Study Guide for Lyn Hejinian's "yet we insist that life is full of happy chance"
    A Study Guide for Lyn Hejinian's "yet we insist that life is full of happy chance"
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    A Study Guide for Lyn Hejinian's "yet we insist that life is full of happy chance"

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    A Study Guide for Lyn Hejinian's "yet we insist that life is full of happy chance," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535843454
    A Study Guide for Lyn Hejinian's "yet we insist that life is full of happy chance"

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      A Study Guide for Lyn Hejinian's "yet we insist that life is full of happy chance" - Gale

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      Yet we insist that life is full of happy chance

      Lyn Hejinian

      1980

      Introduction

      In the early 2000s, Lyn Hejinian's Yet we insist that life is full of happy chance appeared destined to remain a work in progress. The original version of the poem (and the one reprinted here) was first included in Hejinian's collection My Life (1980), which was composed of thirty-seven sections, each comprised of thirty-seven sentences. When she first wrote it in 1978, Hejinian planned to write an autobiographical poem in a form that corresponded to her age (thirty-seven). But as time passes, the numerical markers of a person's age increase, and in 1987, Hejinian released a revised edition of the original poems, expanded to reflect the fact that she was then eight years older. Just as Hejinian's life had lengthened to included forty-five years, so, too, did the collection, now expanded to forty-five sections, containing the original poems, each with eight new lines. Later, Hejinian published a number of independent sections that suggest a continuation of My Life to include memories of the

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