Best American Poetry 2004

Lyn Hejinian was born in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1941. A poet, essayist, and translator, she is the author or coauthor of more than two dozen books, including The Fatalist, My Life, and The Language of Inquiry, a collection of her critical essays. She recently received the sixty-sixth Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets for distinguished poetic achievement at midcareer. She lives in Berkeley and teaches at the University of California. David Lehman is on the core faculty of the graduate writing programs at Bennington College and The New SchoolLehman, David is the author of 'Best American Poetry 2004', published 2004 under ISBN 9780743257572 and ISBN 074325757X.