The Lights by Ben Lerner Erin Fornoff Rather than lamenting the impossibility

Rather than lamenting the impossibility of reproducing any language’s unique knots of form and content in translation

and employing both formal and free verse

Individuals move through the night and come upon themselves in its mirrors

history and ageing) all orbit the gravitational centre of The M Pages

steeped in art and literature

The Lights by Ben Lerner Erin Fornoff Rather than lamenting the impossibilityFrom the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times. The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice memos and vignettes, songs and silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. These are poems at once alive to the forces that shape human society and to the rhythms of the natural world, to the power of new