Ben Lerner: The Lights
The Lights
Buch
- Poems
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr), 09/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780374613921
- Bestellnummer: 11805348
- Umfang: 128 Seiten
- Gewicht: 454 g
- Maße: 210 x 137 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 3.9.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry PrizeA New Yorker Essential Read
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric Literature
A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10: 04 and The Topeka School.
The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. Sometimes the scale is intimate, quiet, and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the animation of our common world. Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights registers the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises, but for all their insight and critique, Ben Lerner's poems ultimately communicate-in their unpredictability, in their intensities-the promise of mysterious sources of lift and illumination.
Biografie
Ben Lerner (geb. 1979) stammt aus Topeka, Kansas. Er lebte als Fulbright Stipendiat in Spanien und gründete die einflussreiche Literaturzeitschrift "NO: A Journal of the Arts". Er lehrt am California College und lebt in Berkeley. Er ist der jüngste Lyriker, dessen Gedichtband je auf der Shortlist des National Book Award stand. Ben Lerner
The Lights
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