Mean Free Path
Lerner [is] among the most promising young poets now writing.-Publishers WeeklySharp, ambitious, and impressive. -Boston ReviewNational Book Award finalist Ben Lerner turns to science once again for his guiding metaphor. Mean free path is the average distance a particle travels before colliding with another particle. The poems in Lerner's third collection are full of layered collisions-repetitions, fragmentations, stutters, re-combinations-that track how language threatens to break up or change course under the emotional pressures of the utterance. And then there's the larger collision of love, and while Lerner questions whether love poems ar…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61932-074-1
- EAN: 9781619320741
- Produktnummer: 22559314
- Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 286 KB
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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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