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.

For comparison, I think Malena Mörling and Ben Lerner are more capable of making the ordinary more extraordinary and have a lot more imagination in their

Imagine a song, she said, that gives voice to people’s anger. These weren’t her actual words. The anger precedes the song, she continued, but the song precedes the people, the people are back-formed from their singing, which socialises feeling, expands the domain of the feelable. Riot guns with rubber bullets, tear gas, water canons, flying wedges of heavily armored police, are not only incapable of dispersing the dark crowd, but, by inciting a phase change in the visible crowd, expand its ranks. WE ARE PLEASED TO OFFER A LAMP that turns on and off when you clap, when you clap your eyes.

Skickas inom 2-5 vardagar. Köp boken The Hatred of Poetry av Ben Lerner (ISBN 9780865478206) hos Adlibris. Fraktfritt över 229 kr Benjamin S. Lerner , född 4 februari 1979 i Topeka i Kansas i USA, är en amerikansk poet, essäist och kritiker. Lerner har studerat politisk teori och poesi vid Pris: 116 kr.

Lerner and His Firefly. Mark Halliday. On The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner. There must have been a moment when an editor at FSG said to Ben Lerner, in an

For admirers of Lerner's fiction who are just now coming to his poems, this volume will offer a compelling illustration of how poetry thinks and pleasures distinctly; What Ben Lerner seems mostly to want from a poem is the pleasure in finding (for the millionth time) that it falls short of the LSD-wow-a-firefly-totalizing magic of what he calls “virtual poetry.” No wonder he enjoyed Pegasus Descending, an anthology of “the best bad … 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." Discussed in this essay: The Topeka School, by Ben Lerner.Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

2016-11-20 · The poem is an argument against detachment. It is also about the way the title changes as you read, and the book changes in the light of that poem. No Art is published by Granta (£14.99).

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I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last sabbath day of 1879 No Art: Poems / Gedichte, Ben Lerner ist einer der klügsten und innovativsten amerikanischen Dichter der Gegenwart.
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He was awarded the Hayden Carruth Award for his first book The Lichtenberg Figures (2004), a cycle of fifty-two sonnets.

A poet first and foremost, with two celebrated novels under his belt, Lerner attempts to stay above the fray by analyzing the unending debate with fresh eyes. 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. 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.
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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. 2016-11-20 · The poem is an argument against detachment. It is also about the way the title changes as you read, and the book changes in the light of that poem. No Art is published by Granta (£14.99).

Essän The Hatred of Poetry kom 2016. Lerner är litteraturprofessor vid Brooklyn College i New York. Debutromanen finns nu på svenska som

Köp boken The Hatred of Poetry av Ben Lerner (ISBN 9780865478206) hos Adlibris. Fraktfritt över 229 kr Benjamin S. Lerner , född 4 februari 1979 i Topeka i Kansas i USA, är en amerikansk poet, essäist och kritiker. Lerner har studerat politisk teori och poesi vid Pris: 116 kr. Häftad, 2016. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Köp The Hatred of Poetry av Ben Lerner på Bokus.com. Köp böcker av Ben Lerner: Topeka School; Varför alla hatar poesi; På väg från Atocha m.fl.

You can read more about Ben Lerner on his Jacket author notes page. Ben Lerner’s book of prose poems, with images by Barbara Bloom, will be published in the autumn. More by this contributor. Poem: ‘The Stone’ 7 January 2021 Benjamin S. Lerner (born February 4, 1979) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic.He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Howard Foundation Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a MacArthur Fellow, among other honors. Lerner turned to fiction only after publishing three volumes of poetry (the second, Angle of Yaw, got him shortlisted for a National book award in 2006), and his novels share a disarming Lerner is the author of several full-length poetry collections, including No Art (2016); Mean Free Path (2010); Angle of Yaw (2006), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award; and the sonnet sequence The Lichtenberg Figures (2004), which won the Hayden Carruth Award, was chosen by Library Journal as one of the year’s 12 best poetry books, and was a Lannan Literary Selection. Born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, writer and editor Ben Lerner earned a BA in political science and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University. He has served as a Fulbright scholar in Madrid and as a Guggenheim fellow.