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The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

Lyn Hejinian

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Lyn Hejinian
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: May 17
Essayist
Poet
Translator
San Francisco County
California
Process
Readers
Often
Originals
Original
Emphasizes
Reader
Compositions
Poetry
Foreground
Either
Subsequent
Open
Text
Literature
Composition

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