{"product_id":"the-lights-poems-hardcover","title":"The Lights: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBen Lerner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Essential Read of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2023 by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times, The Telegraph, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Electric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of\u003ci\u003e 10:04 \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Topeka School.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lights\u003c\/i\u003e is a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. Sometimes the scale is intimate, quiet, and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the animation of our common world. Written over a span of fifteen years, \u003ci\u003eThe Lights\u003c\/i\u003e registers the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises, but for all their insight and critique, Ben Lerner's poems ultimately communicate--in their unpredictability, in their intensities--the promise of mysterious sources of lift and illumination.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Lerner \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of seven previous books of poetry and prose, as well as several collaborations with visual artists. The poems in \u003ci\u003eThe Lights\u003c\/i\u003e are in conversation with--and often contain the seeds of--his acclaimed novels and essays. The recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, Lerner has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among many other honors. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764422050080,"sku":"9780374279219","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/34da1f7ea5859609cef681f563685fda.webp?v=1780247856","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-lights-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}