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Bookmark or Share- The Hatred of Poetry: An Interview with Ben LernerJune 30, 2016. At Work. What do we want from poetry? To read a poem is, on some level, to loathe it—both poem and poet aspire to fulfill a set of impossible expectations from the culture. In his new book, The Hatred of Poetry, Ben Lerner argues that a disdain for poetry is inextricable from the art form itself.
- Ben Lerner | Poetry FoundationLerner is the author of several full-length poetry collections, including No Art (2016); Mean Free Path (2010); Angle of Yaw (2006), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award; and the sonnet sequence The Lichtenberg Figures (2004), which won the Hayden Carruth Award, was chosen by Library Journal as ...
- To Decode White Male Rage, First He Had to Write in His Mother’s VoiceBy GILES HARVEY OCT. 8, 2019. O ne evening in the mid-1980s, when he was 6 or 7, Ben Lerner appeared in the doorway of his parents’ bedroom. It was late, and Harriet and Stephen — clinical ...
- Book Review: ‘The Lights,’ by Ben Lerner - The New York TimesBen Lerner, a Poet/Novelist, Builds a Dream House of Words. After receiving plaudits for his recent novels, Lerner returns to verse with an expansive new collection, “The Lights.” Share full...
- Ben Lerner, Personal Poet | The NationWho is Ben Lerner? Readers of his fiction will be able to supply some answers: an intellectual and a museumgoer, a Midwesterner turned Brooklyn-dwelling dad, someone deeply interested in the...
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