Jennifer Bartlett

Praise for Sustaining Air

 

“Sustaining Air: The Life of Larry Eigner, is a terrific book. I, as they say, couldn’t put it down, finishing it in a day, and wishing for more.”

—The Brooklyn Rail

 

" . . . a capstone to a steady solidification of respect for the poet’s art and legacy." 

—The Arts Fuse

 

“Sustaining Air is a marvel of a book. For starters, it is extremely readable. Bartlett has wisely kept the chapters short and, despite the highly conceptual nature of the poetry that she is dealing with, has been able to render it intelligible to a wide range of readers through her own very accessible language.”

—Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature

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“We ought to be very grateful to this author for her tireless research and careful approach to the life and work of this underappreciated poet.”

—The Poetry Project 

 

“Readers of Larry Eigner have eagerly awaited Jennifer Bartlett’s biography of the poet, and based on my reading, it was worth the wait . . . Although Sustaining Air is about a literary figure, it is also a disability narrative about a poet whose cerebral palsy exerted a powerful influence on his life and work. Bartlett’s understanding of disability issues and her own personal experience of living with disability give her special insight into Eigner’s capabilities—and difficulties.”                            

—Michael Davidson, author of Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic

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