Larry Eigner is associated with the Black Mountain Poets of the 1950s, and his work was included under that heading in the landmark 1960 anthology The New American Poetry, edited by Donald M. Allen. More recently Eigner served as an influence on the Language Poets, with whom he had been in conversation since the early 1970s. Formally, Eigner's poetry marks an important development in the use of line and page introduced by E. E. Cummings and other Modernists in the 1920s, carried forward in the later work of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. The shape of Eigner's poetry is one of the most distinctive features of his work. His abandonment of the left margin and subsequent break from a phraseology determined by normative habits of sentence construction led the way to a similar development in the poetry of Charles Olson, Paul Blackburn, Robert Duncan, and many others. These...