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The Lichtenberg Figures - (Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets) by Ben Lerner (Paperback)

Name: The Lichtenberg Figures - (Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets) by Ben Lerner (Paperback)
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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.
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.
96 Pages
Poetry, American
Series Name: Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets

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About the Book

Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award uses "broken sonnets" to explore complex juxtapositions of contemporary culture.

Book Synopsis

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.

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.

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 9.48 Inches (H) x 7.06 Inches (W) x .2 Inches (D)

Weight: .3 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 96

Genre: Poetry

Sub-Genre: American

Series Title: Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Theme: General

Format: Paperback

Author: Ben Lerner

Language: English

Street Date: September 1, 2004

TCIN: 82942834

UPC: 9781556592119

Item Number (DPCI): 247-09-4167

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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