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Dedication

by Ben Lerner

For the distances collapsed.
              For the figure
failed to humanize
the scale. For the work,
the work did nothing but invite us
to relate it to
              the wall.
For I was a shopper in a dark
              aisle.

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PoetryBen Lerner

Ben Lerner is the author of three poetry collections, The Lichtenberg Figures, which won the Hayden Carruth Award from Copper Canyon Press and was a Lannan Literary Selection; Angle of Yaw, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, among other honors; and Mean Free Path (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). Lerner’s first novel is Leaving the Atocha Station (Coffee House Press, 2011). Lerner teaches in the English department at Brooklyn College.


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Fall 2009

Fall 2009

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