The Lights by Ben Lerner Paperback Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Lights by Ben Lerner From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice memos and vignettes, songs and silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. These are poems at once alive to the forces that shape human society and to the rhythms of the natural world, to the power of new technologies and the wonder of our timeless planet. Sometimes the scale is intimate and quiet and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the collectivization of feeling: I want everybody out there to sing along, even the stones.Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights records the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises. And, even while alert to the darkness, it is the light in the book that remains, in dusk, in images from space, in old poems, in power cuts, in the flickering connections between people. From one of the most celebrated writers of his generation, the poems in this collection come to us as beacons, the poems in this collection come to us as beacons, illuminating new possibilities of thought and feeling. Author Biography Ben Lerner, who the New York Times Magazine has called the most talented writer of his generation, is the author of seven previous books of poetry and prose, as well as collaborations with visual artists. The poems in The Lights are in conversation with-and often contain the seeds of-his acclaimed essays and novels. The recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, Lerner has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College. Review Ben Lerners poems are remarkable for their graceful, trenchant exploration of aesthetics, politics, voice, address, music, and structure -- Maggie NelsonAt long last we have the deep pleasure of reading a new book of poems by Ben Lerner. The Lights continues his boundless innovative vocal range: the lyrical, the fictive, the confessional, and the apostrophe, are seamlessly braided in this exhilarating collection. The Lights is Lerners most personal and important book to date -- Peter GizziI look forward to Ben Lerners poetry the way I used to anticipate a new record by my favourite band. He can be painfully funny and urgently serious in the same poem, self-excoriating and intellectually generous -- Luke KennardBen Lerners poems are brilliant. Again and again they decode and recode the daily mysteries. The questing intelligence and ironists wink are underpinned by a real moral force -- Nick LairdSteeped in a tradition stretching back to the origins of the poetic tradition in English, Lerners speakers wander a perpetually twilit cityscape, contemplating the poets complicity in the prosodies of political entropy, American empire, death-drive capitalism - these poems are haunting, gloaming, blue. -- Stephanie Sy-QuiaI was deeply moved by The Lights. Reading the poems felt like an encounter with an archive of a beloved, where fragments can affect a startling power, and within the more seemingly ordinary texts - glimmers of empathy, exuberance and flatness, a new experience of language - I found exactly what I needed. -- Amy Key Promotional From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times. Details ISBN1915051088 Author Ben Lerner Publisher Granta Publications Ltd Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781915051080 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-09-07 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2023-09-07 UK Release Date 2023-09-07 Pages 128 ISBN-10 1915051088 DEWEY 811.6 Audience General NZ Release Date 2023-11-13 Imprint Granta Poetry We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:144551032;

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