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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 it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore."In this inventive and lucid ...

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Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award uses "broken sonnets" to explore complex juxtapositions of contemporary culture.

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From a National Book Award finalist, this ironic first novel captures the angst of the young American abroad.

Named One of the Best Books of the Year By:The New Yorker The New York Times Book Review The Wall Street Journal The Village Voice The Boston Globe NPR Vanity Fair The Guardian (London) The L Magazine The Times Literary Supplement (London) The Globe and Mail (Toronto) The Huffington Post Gawker Flavorwire San Francisco Chronicle The Kansas City Star The Jewish Daily Forward Tin HouseWinner of The Paris Review's 2012 Terry Southern PrizeA Final...

Un uomo di poco più di trent'anni vede la propria vita cambiare improvvisamente direzione. La sua migliore amica gli ha chiesto di aiutarla a concepire un figlio, ma senza diventare una coppia. La carriera di scrittore ha incontrato finalmente un insperato successo, e in modo altrettanto imprevisto è giunta la diagnosi di una malattia cardiaca, potenzialmente fatale. Questi eventi, questi improvvisi stravolgimenti, felici, drammatici, curiosam...

Waarom hebben mensen een hekel aan poëzie? Volgens Ben Lerner is de haat voor poëzie onlosmakelijk verbonden met dichtkunst. In dit onderhoudende, persoonlijke en zeldzaam oorspronkelijke essay neemt Ben Lerner de haat voor de poëzie - ook zijn eigen haat - als vertrekpunt voor zijn verdediging van deze kunstvorm. Hij bestudeert de beroemdste poëziehaters (te beginnen met Plato, die meende dat er in de ideale staat geen plek voor dichters was ...

A dazzling collection of award-winning poetry, available for the first time beyond the US.