On "Dedication" This is the first poem in Mean Free Path.I wanted the dedication to be integral to the book, not something set apart on a prefatory page. Because the poems are largely concerned with the possibility of writing and being for, with finding a mode of address capable of something other than ironic detachment or expressing prefabricated structures of feeling, it seemed like cheating

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BOK: Kristian Ekenberg läser två nya böcker av Ben Lerner. Han inleder med att skriva om poeten Marianne Moores ”Poetry”, som inleds 

978–1-55659–314-7 paper. Lerner seems to reinvent the novel as a happy side effect of some other project. He rarely mentions fiction writers in his books. The narrator of 10:04 described that book as “a work that, like a poem, is neither fiction nor nonfiction, but a flickering between them”; The Topeka School is also such a flickering, if a more subtle one. "Like the intricate patterns of 'captured lightning' to which the book's title refers, the poems in Ben Lerner's The Lichtenberg Figures make their mark in bursts of invention and surprise. The languages of critical theory and television collide, often with titillating and telling results: startling, gnomic ingots are scattered throughout; clichés are ripped apart and reassembled fresh and Ben Lerner’s most recent book is the novel The Topeka School.

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Original Hardcover with Illustrated Dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. 2016-06-30 · To read a poem is, on some level, to loathe it—both poem and poet aspire to fulfill a set of impossible expectations from the culture. In his new book, The Hatred of Poetry, Ben Lerner argues that a disdain for poetry is inextricable from the art form itself. Earlier this month, Michael Clune spoke to Lerner at Greenlight Books, in Ben Lerner’s poem, ‘Dilation’ will also be appearing in the next issue of Granta, Medicine. Here he spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about the fictions we construct about ourselves, the relationship between poetry and breakdown, the ‘elasticity’ of the novel and the generative properties of failure. By Ben Lerner (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 86pp., $12) Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry is a slim book with a husky premise: “The fatal problem with poetry: poems.” This is Lerner’s first book since winning a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship in 2015 for his two widely celebrated novels.

2016-11-20 Lerner is the author of three poetry collections: Mean Free Path (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), Angle of Yaw (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), and The Lichtenberg Figures (Copper Canyon Press, 2004), as well as two highly acclaimed novels.

Ben Lerner, själv erkänd poet och litteraturkritiker, frågar sig hur det kommer sig att poesi är den enda litterära form det är okej att säga att man hatar.

The thesis of The Hatred of Poetry is as clear as it is counter-intuitive: people hate poetry because they hold it in such high esteem—and poems fail to fulfill their lofty promise. At one point in the novel, Gordon reads a selection from Selected Poems. "The best Ashbery poems, I thought, although not in these words, describe what it's like to read an Ashbery poem." Ashbery called Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station "[a]n extraordinary novel about the intersections of art and reality in contemporary life." Ben Lerner is acutely aware of these contradictions, and attempts to explain them in his long essay that turns out not to be so much about the hatred of poetry, as about disappointment and what Ben Lerner Mean Free Path A review / essay by David Gorin 84 pp.

Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry, a novel, and a number of essays. The recipient of numerous awards, he is associate professor of English at Brooklyn College. "Didactic Elegy" is from Angle of Yaw (2006), and is reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.

My big dream for these and the other Ben Lerner poems I’ve written is to make them into a chapbook and enter that into a contest being judged by Ben Lerner so that the book would be called, if it won the contest, something like: Ben Lerner, Ben Lerner, Ben Lerner, and Other Poems, selected by Ben Lerner, and then of course Lerner would have a Ben Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, The Lichtenberg Figures.In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry. Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry (The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path), two novels (Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04) and a work of criticism (The Hatred of Poetry). Ben Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic.

Ben lerner poems

Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry (The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path), two novels (Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04) and a work of criticism (The Hatred of Poetry). Ben Lerner’s book of prose poems, with images by Barbara Bloom, will be published in the autumn. More by this contributor. Diary: On Disliking Poetry 18 June 2015 Lunch Poems - Ben Lerner Ben Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, The Lichtenberg Figures.In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry. Ben Lerner’s first book is The Lichtenberg Figures, published by Copper Canyon Press. He co-edits No: a journal of the arts.
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Ben lerner poems

2017-08-27 · Lerner includes himself among the poetry haters. His first experience with poetic transformation comes from having had to memorize a poem in high school, and he chooses Marianne Moore’s 1967 version of “Poetry” because it is very short and easy, he mistakenly thinks, to memorize: “I, too, dislike it. The Hatred of Poetry, an elegant new book by Ben Lerner, might sound like a contribution to this genre.(Indeed, he quotes Moore in the book’s first line.) But Lerner has not written a screed or Ben Lerner, poet, critic, and professor at Brooklyn College, reads from his work and discusses the craft of poetry as part of the University of Chicago's Poem Present Reading and Lecture series. He focuses on the alienation of modern life and the limitations of communication.

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"Like the intricate patterns of 'captured lightning' to which the book's title refers, the poems in Ben Lerner's The Lichtenberg Figures make their mark in bursts of invention and surprise. The languages of critical theory and television collide, often with titillating and telling results: startling, gnomic ingots are scattered throughout; clichés are ripped apart and reassembled fresh and

He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, The Lichtenberg Figures. In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry. for I had dressed.


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BOK: Kristian Ekenberg läser två nya böcker av Ben Lerner. Han inleder med att skriva om poeten Marianne Moores ”Poetry”, som inleds 

Buy No Art: Poems by Ben Lerner (ISBN: 9781783782741) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 2017-08-27 · Lerner includes himself among the poetry haters. His first experience with poetic transformation comes from having had to memorize a poem in high school, and he chooses Marianne Moore’s 1967 version of “Poetry” because it is very short and easy, he mistakenly thinks, to memorize: “I, too, dislike it. The Hatred of Poetry, an elegant new book by Ben Lerner, might sound like a contribution to this genre.(Indeed, he quotes Moore in the book’s first line.) But Lerner has not written a screed or Ben Lerner, poet, critic, and professor at Brooklyn College, reads from his work and discusses the craft of poetry as part of the University of Chicago's Poem Present Reading and Lecture series.