The lights : poems /
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 the animation of our common wo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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 the animation of our common world. Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights registers the pleasures, risks and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises, but for all their insight and critique, Lerner's poems ultimately communicate, in their unpredictability, in their intensities, the promise of mysterious sources of lift and illumination. |
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| Physical Description: | 117 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780374279219 0374279217 |