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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
ISBN-10
1556592116
ISBN-13
9781556592119
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30757569
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lichtenberg Figures
Author
Ben Lerner
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / General
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
4.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3612.E68l53 2004
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2004-006038
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Series
Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets Ser.