Ben Lerner's choice of the title The Lichtenberg Figures is only one of the inspired choices associated with his first volume of poetry. The 52 unrhymed, ear-rhythmed, line "sonnets," then, that collectively and individually compose the volume, are the result of the extreme potentials of the world catastrophically forcing their way through. · This is the conceit and the method of Ben Lerner's first book of poems, aptly named The Lichtenberg Figures after the branching patterns that sometimes form after lightning strikes. Indeed, each of the 52 (one for each week of the year?) poems "flash," most consistently in the way that they crack open time to express an astonishing inclusivity, and for the ways in which they crackle with . The Lichtenberg Figures, the unconventional collection of sonnets that Lerner wrote in , are full of rapidly shifting perspectives, from everyday observations that verge on the banal, quotations and scientific considerations to ironic comments.
From the sequence 'The Lichtenberg Figures' by Ben Lerner, published in 'No Art' by Granta Books (£) Get alerts on Books when a new story is published. Get alerts. THE LICHTENBERG FIGURES. Ben Lerner. Copper Canyon Press ($14) by Cindra Halm. Let's say the poetic mind is a storm chamber. Because of erratic winds, stuff blows in from beyond the usual waking sensibility; as in disturbed sleep, neighbors and friends end up next to famous historical figures; parts of speech collide with images of herbs and. Ben Lerner is from Topeka, Kansas. His first book is The Lichtenberg Figures, published by Copper Canyon bltadwin.ru Canyon will publish his second book, Angle of Yaw, in early He co-founded and co-edits No: a journal of the bltadwin.ru can read three poems from Angle of Yaw in Jacket
“Lichtenberg figures” are fern-like electrical patterns that can appear on (and quickly fade from) the bodies of people struck by bltadwin.ruhout this playful and elegiac debut—with its. The Lichtenberg Figures, the unconventional collection of sonnets that Lerner wrote in , are full of rapidly shifting perspectives, from everyday observations that verge on the banal, quotations and scientific considerations to ironic comments. Ben Lerner's choice of the title The Lichtenberg Figures is only one of the inspired choices associated with his first volume of poetry. The 52 unrhymed, ear-rhythmed, line "sonnets," then, that collectively and individually compose the volume, are the result of the extreme potentials of the world catastrophically forcing their way through.
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