Las luces es una constelación de versos y prosas, canciones antiguas, mensajes de voz, interferencias y silencios, un vergel celeste de resplandores sostenidos en la negrura del vacío espacial. Estos poemas miran tan lejos como cerca, tan...
Adam Gordon, promoción del 97, está en su último año del instituto Topeka, en Kansas. Es uno de los chicos cool del instituto, tiene novia, y es la estrella del equipo de debate. Ahora se espera de él que gane el campeon...
Adam Gordon, heterónimo del autor y protagonista de Saliendo de la estación de Atocha, goza de una prestigiosa beca en Madrid para llevar a cabo lo que él llama con grandilocuencia "proyecto poético". Sin embargo,...
Operating in the space between a regulatory cosmos and the chaos of life, spoken language and its written notation unfold in different directions. Proceeding from the digital as a seemingly universal notational substrate, the first volume of Das Neue Alph...
A successful author, entrepreneur and chiropractor, Dr. Ben Lerner is also a self-described graduate of the school of hard knocks. But if he has his way, you will avoid some of the painful classes he took and chart a course for financial profit and person...
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...
A stunning, urgent, and original novel from Ben Lerner ( The Topeka School and Leaving the Atocha Station ) about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire.
Shortlisted for the Folio Prize and internationally celebrated by critics and readers alike, here is a dazzling and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire.
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,...