Mean Free Path, Paperback
Descriere
""Lerneris] among the most promising young poets now writing.""--Publishers Weekly""Sharp, ambitious, and impressive."" --Boston Review National 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 are even possible, he composes a gorgeous, symphonic, and complicated one. You startled me. I thought you were sleeping In the traditional sense. I like looking At anything under glass, especially Glass. You called me. Like overheard Dreams. I'm writing this one as a woman Comfortable with failure. I promise I will never But the predicate withered. If you are Uncomfortable seeing this as portraiture Close your eyes. No, you startled 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 University, co-founded No: a journal of the arts, and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.
Despre autor
Benjamin S. Lerner este un poet, romancier, eseist și critic american. Deținător al unor burse de la Fundațiile Fulbright, Guggenheim și MacArthur, lucrările lui Lerner au fost finaliste pentru Premiul Național de Poezie, Premiul Cercului Național al Criticilor de Carte în domeniul ficțiunii și Premiul Pulitzer pentru Ficțiune. Lerner predă la Brooklyn College, unde a fost numit Profesor Distins de Engleză în 2016.
