The Lichtenberg Figures By Ben Lerner

Sunday, 2 October 2016

The Lichtenberg Figures By Ben Lerner

The Lichtenberg Figures Read By Ben Lerner

Title	:	The Lichtenberg Figures
Author	:	Ben Lerner
Format	:	Paperback
Page	:	53 pages
ISBN	:	1556592116

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 f

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 of No a journal of the arts He earned an MFA from Brown University and is currently a Fulbright scholar in Spain.

about Author

Benjamin S 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 The Lichtenberg Figures appeared in a German translation in 2010, for which it received the Preis der Stadt M nster f r internationale Poesie in 2011, mak Benjamin S 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 The Lichtenberg Figures appeared in a German translation in 2010, for which it received the Preis der Stadt M nster f r internationale Poesie in 2011, making Lerner the first American to receive this honor.Born and raised in Topeka, which figures in each of his books of poetry, Lerner is a 1997 graduate of Topeka High School where he was a standout in debate and forensics At Brown University he earned a B.A in Political Theory and an MFA in Poetry He traveled on a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, Spain in 2003 where he wrote his second book, Angle of Yaw, which was published in 2006 and was subsequently named a finalist for the National Book Award, and was selected by Brian Foley as one of the 25 important books of poetry of the 00s 2000 2009 Lerner s third full length poetry collection, Mean Free Path, was published in 2010.Lerner s first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was published by Coffee House Press in August 2011 It was named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and New York Magazine, among other periodicals It won the Believer Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for first fiction and the New York Public Library s Young Lions prize.In 2008 Lerner began editing poetry for Critical Quarterly, a British academic publication He has taught at California College of the Arts, the University of Pittsburgh, and in 2010 joined the faculty of the MFA program at Brooklyn College.Lerner s mother is the well known psychologist Harriet Lerner