At the Window with a Typewriter. Larry Eigner's Language Writing

Affected by cerebral palsy, Larry Eigner described the world from the vantage point of the glass veranda of his house and started dictating his poetry to the members of his family. He eventually overcame his difficulties by learning how to operate the typewriter, despite the uneasy task of typing with one finger. He soon turned the mechanical scriptorial aid into a creative artisist's tool, in the wake of the modernist poets he admired, from Cummings to Willimas, via Pound and Crane. He was launched as a published author in the late 1950s by Robert Creeley, but the late 1960s and early 1970s he became a favorite of the young writers who would soon launch Language Poetry. His poetry is at one time a meditation on early ecopoetical concerns and a self-aware discourse on the poetic medium, in the wake of the neo-avangard poetics of the self-effacing word.