The Lichtenberg Figures
by Ben Lerner 2021-01-05 14:08:36
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The Lichtenberg Figures, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationship between language and memory, violence and form. Lichtenberg figures" are fern-like electrical patterns that can appea... Read more
The Lichtenberg Figures, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationship between language and memory, violence and form. Lichtenberg figures" are fern-like electrical patterns that can appear on (and quickly fade from) the bodies of people struck by lightning.Throughout this playful and elegiac debut-with its flashes of autobiography, intellection, comedy, and critique-the vocabulary of academic theory collides with American slang and the idiom of the Old Testament meets the jargon of the Internet to display an eclectic sensibility.Ben Lerner, the youngest poet ever published by Copper Canyon Press, is co-founder ofNo: a journal of the arts. He earned an MFA from Brown University and is currently a Fulbright scholar in Spain. " Less
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  • 9.5 X 7 X 0.2 in
  • 96
  • Copper Canyon Press
  • September 11, 2004
  • English
  • 9781556592119
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BEN LERNER was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, and is the author of two internationally acclaimed novels, Leavin...
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