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The Hatred of Poetry
Ben Lerner
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Description for The Hatred of Poetry
Paperback. The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 172.
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 essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the ... Read more
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 essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910695159
SKU
V9781910695159
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About Ben Lerner
Ben Lerner was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry, a Howard Foundation Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. His first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, won the 2012 Believer Book Award. His second novel, 10:04, an international bestseller, won The Paris Review's 2012 Terry Southern Prize,was ... Read more
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