The Lights
Poems
by Ben Lerner
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Pub Date Sep 05 2023 | Archive Date Sep 30 2023
Description
Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize
A New Yorker Essential Read
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric Literature
A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School.
The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. Sometimes the scale is intimate, quiet, and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the animation of our common world. Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights registers the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises, but for all their insight and critique, Ben Lerner’s poems ultimately communicate—in their unpredictability, in their intensities—the promise of mysterious sources of lift and illumination.
A Note From the Publisher
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780374279219 |
| PRICE | $26.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 128 |
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Featured Reviews
Dalton S, Reviewer
The Lights by Ben Lerner is an impressive work of poetry and prose that captures the complexities of modern life in a constantly changing world. The poems are written with great depth and insight, exploring themes of art, family, and meaning against a backdrop of crises and uncertainties. The language is both beautiful and precise, with a keen eye for detail and an ear for the music of words. Lerner's formal experiments are both playful and profound, creating a rich tapestry of voices and perspectives that speak to the challenges and opportunities of our time. The Lights is a stunning achievement that will resonate with readers long after they've put the book down.
Cortney H, Media/Journalist
Look, there's a reason Ben Lerner has won ALL of the awards. An absolute master of language and storytelling, his newest book is sure to wind up on plenty of critics lists in a few months. There are stunning meta-fiction essays mixed in with poems that are just a pleasure to read. Get a good glass of wine and a decadent snack and just let yourself fall into it.
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