In My Life, Lyn Heijinian describes memory after memory in a stream of consciousness as one image or occurrence leads to another. To the reader, the direction of the excerpt may appear difficult to follow or lacking connection; however, when Heijinian reflects on this work, I am sure she takes pride in seeing where it ends. Therefore, I see this style as being extremely personal with unpredictable outcomes; it allows the writer to discover suppressed or long forgotten memories.
Though written in a similar fashion, I have a difficult time determining the method Sheila Murphy used in Letters to Unfinished J. Her transition from sentence to sentence appears unclear; however, as stated above, to Murphy, her shifts may make complete sense. In poem 66, I do recognize the connection between the line talking about a lie versus the following the talks about truth, but still, much is unclear.
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