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Ben Lerner
Born
in Topeka, Kansas, The United States
February 04, 1979
Genre
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The Topeka School
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published
2019
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Leaving the Atocha Station
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published
2011
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53 editions
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10:04
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published
2014
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43 editions
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The Hatred of Poetry
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published
2016
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24 editions
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Angle of Yaw
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published
2006
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10 editions
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The Lichtenberg Figures
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published
2004
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11 editions
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Mean Free Path
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published
2010
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6 editions
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The Lights: Poems
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published
2023
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6 editions
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No Art: Poems
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Café Loup
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“I tried hard to imagine my poems or any poems as machines that could make things happen, changing the government, or the economy or even their language, the body or its sensorium, but I could not imagine this, could not even imagine imagining it. And yet when I imagined the total victory of those other things over poetry, when I imagined, with a sinking feeling, a world without even the terrible excuses for poems that kept faith with the virtual possibilities of the medium, without the sort of absurd ritual I'd participated in that evening then I intuited an inestimable loss, a loss not of artworks but of art, and therefore infinite, the total triumph of the actual, and I realized that, in such a world, I would swallow a bottle of white pills.”
― Leaving the Atocha Station
― Leaving the Atocha Station
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