{"product_id":"the-lichtenberg-figures-paperback","title":"The Lichtenberg Figures - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBen Lerner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lichtenberg Figures\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationship between language and memory, violence and form. \"Lichtenberg figures\" are fern-like electrical patterns that can appear on (and quickly fade from) the bodies of people struck by lightning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout this playful and elegiac debut--with its flashes of autobiography, intellection, comedy, and critique--the vocabulary of academic theory collides with American slang and the idiom of the Old Testament meets the jargon of the Internet to display an eclectic sensibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Lerner\u003c\/b\u003e, the youngest poet ever published by Copper Canyon Press, is co-founder of \u003ci\u003eNo: a journal of the arts\u003c\/i\u003e. He earned an MFA from Brown University and is currently a Fulbright scholar in Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 9.48 x 7.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43424034357315,"sku":"9781556592119","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/store7994.com\/products\/the-lichtenberg-figures-paperback","provider":"STORE 7994","version":"1.0","type":"link"}