Ben Lerner: 25 books

“Lerner [is] among the most promising young poets now writing.”—Publishers Weekly“Sharp, ambitious, and impressive.” —Boston ReviewNational Book Award finalist Ben Lerner turns to science once again for his guiding metaphor. “Mean free path” is the average distance a...

In his bold second book, Ben Lerner molds philosophical insight, political outrage, and personal experience into a devastating critique of mass society. Angle of Yaw investigates the fate of public space, public speech, and how the technologies of viewing-aerial photography in particular-feed our culture...

Waarom hebben mensen een hekel aan poëzie? Volgens Ben Lerner is de haat voor poëzie onlosmakelijk verbonden met dichtkunst. In dit onderhoudende, persoonlijke en zeldzaam oorspronkelijke essay neemt Ben Lerner de haat voor de poëzie – ook zijn eigen haat – als vertrekpunt voor zijn verdediging...

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around...

Ein wunderbarer Roman über die Entstehung von Kunst, Liebe und Kindern im Abenddämmer eines Imperiums. Der Held von Ben Lerners Roman ist ein Brooklyner Schriftsteller namens Ben, der einen frechen, von der Kritik gefeierten Erstling über sein junges Leben publiziert hat und nun auf größere Erfolge...

Childhood is a pivotal time for good nutrition. Organs and blood streams nurtured with junk food cannot build a foundation for good health and longevity as an adult. Drs. Joseph Mercola and Ben Lerner believe profound inactivity, addiction to electronic media, and diets of super-sized fast food and...

Your body is by God. God preprogrammed you to look great, have outrageous health, and experience incredible happiness. In the human body, God created a perfect design, equipped with all the organs, tissues, and cells necessary for health, production, and reproduction. The problem, asserts Dr. Ben...

"Ângulo de guinada" é um livro de poesia incomum. Mescla de reflexão filosófica sobre a mercantilização do espaço público, prosa sobre o valor da arte contemporânea, sequências líricas e poesia experimental. Ben Lerner – um dos mais criativos autores de sua geração – investiga...

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...

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential...

«Chiunque si interessi alla migliore letteratura contemporanea dovrebbe leggere Ben Lerner, e questo romanzo è il modo migliore per iniziare» (Jeffrey Eugenides, autore di Le vergini suicide). Un uomo di poco più di trent’anni scopre di avere una malattia cardiaca potenzialmente fatale. Allo...

De jonge dichter Adam Gordon heeft een prestigieuze beurs gekregen om in Madrid onderzoek te doen, maar hij vult zijn dagen liever met blowen en zwerven door het Prado. Adam verlangt naar een diepgaande, kunstzinnige ervaring en is voortdurend op zoek naar de ver banden tussen kunst en taal, waarheid...

Ben Lerner scruta i sentimenti che abbiamo per la poesia come punto di partenza per una difesa del mondo dell’arte. «Odiare la poesia è una grande critica del genere poetico, e una delle sue difese più appassionanti» (Bookforum).

Le figure di Lichtenberg sono le orme dei fulmini. Sono tracciati leggeri e felciformi, che appaiono a volte e per poco sui corpi di chi dai fulmini viene colpito. Difficile trovare un modo migliore per descrivere la poesia di Ben Lerner. In questa sua prima prova, il poeta e scrittore statunitense...