The Poetic Establishment
Has Co-opted Contradiction

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.