From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of
poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly
to our complex times. The Lights is a constellation of verse and
prose, voice memos and vignettes, songs and silences, that brings
the personal and the collective into startling relation. These are
poems at once alive to the forces that shape human society and to
the rhythms of the natural world, to the power of new technologies
and the wonder of our timeless planet. Sometimes the scale is
intimate and quiet and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic
experiments in the "collectivization of feeling": "I want everybody
out there to sing along, even the stones." Written over a span of
fifteen years, The Lights records the pleasures, risks, and
absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop
of interlocking, accelerating crises. And, even while alert to the
darkness, it is the light in the book that remains, in dusk, in
images from space, in old poems, in power cuts, in the flickering
connections between people. From one of the most celebrated writers
of his generation, the poems in this collection come to us as
beacons, illuminating new possibilities of thought and feeling.
General
| Imprint: |
Granta Publications Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
Ben Lerner
|
| Dimensions: |
198 x 129mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
128 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-915051-08-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-915051-08-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781915051080 |
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