Larry Eigner (1927-1996) was a prominent American poet of the postwar era.
Poet, essayist and drawing poem text artist Robert Grenier, a leading figure in the Language Writing movement, attended Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has taught literature and creative writing at U.C. Berkeley, Tufts, Franconia College, New College of California and Mills College. He has held an Amy Lowell Travelling Scholarship and two NEA Fellowships in Creative Writing. Working together with the author, Grenier previously edited three books of poems by Larry Eigner: Waters/Places/A Time, Windows/Walls/Yard/Ways and readiness/enough/depends/on. From 1979 to 1989, as part of a shared living arrangement in Berkeley, Robert Grenier and Kathleen Frumkin provided for Eigner's daily needs (including him in their family), and Grenier (working with Eigner) completed the preparation of some 1,800 'established texts' of Larry Eigner's poems, in contemplation of the future occasion of a Collected Poems. An archive of Grenier's work over the years, the Robert Grenier Papers, is housed in Stanford University's Green Library.
Curtis Faville has worked as a teacher, editor, publisher, bureaucrat and-since 1998-rare book dealer. He holds degrees in English, creative writing, and landscape architecture. He has published four collections of poetry-Stanzas For An Evening Out, Ready, Wittgenstein's Door, and Metro-and published books by Bill Berkson, Ted Greenwald, and Larry Eigner, among others, under the L Publications/Compass Rose Books imprimatur. He lives with his wife in Kensington, California.
