Ben Lerner (USA)
1979
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BOOKS OF POETRY
The Lichtenberg Figures (Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2004); Angle of Yaw (Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2006); Mean Free Path (Port Townsend, Washington: Cooper Canyon Press, 2010); No Art (collection of 3 previous books, 2016); The Lights (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023)
╬Winner of the PIP Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry in English
2005-2006
from Angle of Yaw
SEEN FROM ABOVE exposition, climax, and denouement all take place at once. God sees the future as we see the past: through a trimetrogon. In the name of the camera, the film, and the view itself. Simultaneous eternities are superimposed to create the illusion of plenitude, but the transposition of planes is a poor substitute for the transmigration of souls. I think Andrei Rublev says, Nothing is as terrible as snow falling in a temple, because without a distinction between inside and outside, there can be no extra-temporal redemption. That, and how anybody can just lie down an make an angel, even a Tartar. Even an angel.
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Reprinted from Denver Quarterly, XV, no. 2 (2005). Copyright ©2005 by Ben Lerner.
1979
Ben Lerner was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979. He holds a B.A. in political science and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brown University. A former Fulbright Scholar in Madrid, Lerner co-founded and co-edits No: a journal of the arts.
His first book, The Lichtenberg Figures, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2004. A Lannan Literary Selection, The Lichtenberg Figures was named one of the year’s twelve best books of poetry by Library Journal. Copper Canyon published his second book, Angle of Yaw, in the fall of 2006 which was National Book Award finalist.
In 2011 he published his first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, followed by 10.04 and The Topeka School. These fictions, the latter two published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, all received major review and award attention.
In 2016 he published the very controversial prose work, The Hatred of Poetry.
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BOOKS OF POETRY
The Lichtenberg Figures (Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2004); Angle of Yaw (Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2006); Mean Free Path (Port Townsend, Washington: Cooper Canyon Press, 2010); No Art (collection of 3 previous books, 2016); The Lights (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023)
╬Winner of the PIP Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry in English
2005-2006
from Angle of Yaw
SEEN FROM ABOVE exposition, climax, and denouement all take place at once. God sees the future as we see the past: through a trimetrogon. In the name of the camera, the film, and the view itself. Simultaneous eternities are superimposed to create the illusion of plenitude, but the transposition of planes is a poor substitute for the transmigration of souls. I think Andrei Rublev says, Nothing is as terrible as snow falling in a temple, because without a distinction between inside and outside, there can be no extra-temporal redemption. That, and how anybody can just lie down an make an angel, even a Tartar. Even an angel.
PERMISSIONS
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Reprinted from Denver Quarterly, XV, no. 2 (2005). Copyright ©2005 by Ben Lerner.