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Mean Free Path

Ben Lerner

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English
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
08 June 2010
""Lerner [is] among the most promising young poets now writing.""-Publishers Weekly

""Sharp, ambitious, and impressive."" -Boston Review

National Book Award finalist Ben Lerner turns to science once again for his guiding metaphor. ""Mean free path"" is the average distance a particle travels before colliding with another particle. The poems in Lerner's third collection are full of layered collisions-repetitions, fragmentations, stutters, re-combinations-that track how language threatens to break up or change course under the emotional pressures of the utterance. And then there's the larger collision of love, and while Lerner questions whether love poems are even possible, he composes a gorgeous, symphonic, and complicated one.

You startled me. I thought you were sleeping In the traditional sense. I like looking At anything under glass, especially Glass. You called me. Like overheard Dreams. I'm writing this one as a woman Comfortable with failure. I promise I will never But the predicate withered. If you are Uncomfortable seeing this as portraiture Close your eyes. No, you startled

Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry and was named a finalist for the National Book Award for his second book, Angle of Yaw. He holds degrees from Brown University, co-founded No: a journal of the arts, and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Imprint:   Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 241mm,  Width: 177mm,  Spine: 6mm
Weight:   170g
ISBN:   9781556593147
ISBN 10:   1556593147
Pages:   96
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry and was named a finalist for the National Book Award for his second book, Angle of Yaw. He holds degrees from Brown Univeristy, co-founded No: a journal of the arts, and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.

Reviews for Mean Free Path

"""Angle of Yaw is a stunner.... I have spent a good week, a very good week, re-reading and mining this remarkable volume, but I...don't expect to exhaust its riches.""--Beloit Poetry Journal ""This collection places Lerner among the most promising young poets now writing.""--Publishers Weekly ""The languages of critical theory and television collide, often with titillating and telling results.... Lerner spring-loads one [poem] after another in order to deliver his splendidly calibrated punch.... sharp, ambitious and impressive.""--Boston Review"


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