The Lights Finisterra Zijn stemmingen en remmingen

Zijn stemmingen en remmingen

maar zo ongecompliceerd is dat begin maar zelden

Translated from the Russian by Genya Turovskaya and Stephanie Sandler

and poets screaming in their tombs with mouths full of dirt

these narratives of history

The Lights Finisterra Zijn stemmingen en remmingenBen Lerner The Lights 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, The Lights registers the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning