The Lights
Lerner, Ben Ben Lerner's writing shatters space, time and literary borders . . . [His] language [is] nearly synesthetic. You can taste it in your mouth." --David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times The Lights 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...