The Lichtenberg Figures by Ben Lerner

The Lichtenberg Figures

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The Lichtenberg Figures by Ben Lerner
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The Lichtenberg Figures

Copper Canyon Press

The Lichtenberg Figures

by Ben Lerner

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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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
ISBN:
9781556592119
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Ben Lerner
Published Date:
2004-09-01
Language:
English
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