The Lichtenberg Figures

The Lichtenberg Figures, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the...
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The Lichtenberg Figures by Lerner, Ben

The Lichtenberg Figures

$165.93

The Lichtenberg Figures

$165.93
Author: Ben Lerner
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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



Author: Ben Lerner
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 09/01/2004
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.48h x 7.06w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781556592119


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2005 pg. 94
Library Journal 10/15/2004 pg. 66

About the Author
Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry and was named a finalist for the National Book Award for his second book, Angle of Yaw. He holds degrees from Brown Univeristy, co-founded No: a journal of the arts, and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.

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