Finding the Weight of Things

An innovative study of how a prescient poet imagined ecology and embodiment   Larry Eigner (1927–1996) wrote thousands of poems in his lifetime, despite profound physical limitations caused by cerebral palsy. Using only the thumb and index finger of his right hand, Eigner generated a torrent of urgent and rich language, participating in vital correspondences as well as publishing widely in literary magazines and poetry journals.   While Eigner wrote before the emergence of ecopoetics,