{"product_id":"the-lights-ben-lerner-9780374279219","title":"The Lights: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Essential Read \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times, The Telegraph, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Electric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of\u003ci\u003e 10:04 \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Topeka School.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lights\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Lights\u003c\/i\u003e 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, Ben Lerner's poems ultimately communicate--in their unpredictability, in their intensities--the promise of mysterious sources of lift and illumination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ben Lerner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374279217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374279219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.50w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2023 pg. 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2023 pg. 93","brand":"Ben Lerner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44132469211391,"sku":"9780374279219","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_62fe93b1-2d5c-4d8e-a1b0-0d09c01a176a.jpg?v=1687480386","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-lights-ben-lerner-9780374279219","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}