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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lichtenberg Figures\u003c/i\u003e, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationship between language and memory, violence and form. \u0026ldquo;Lichtenberg figures\u0026rdquo; are fern-like electrical patterns that can appear on (and quickly fade from) the bodies of people struck by lightning.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout this playful and elegiac debut\u0026mdash;with its flashes of autobiography, intellection, comedy, and critique\u0026mdash;the vocabulary of academic theory collides with American slang and the idiom of the Old Testament meets the jargon of the Internet to display an eclectic sensibility.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Lerner\u003c/b\u003e, the youngest poet ever published by Copper Canyon Press, is co-founder of \u003ci\u003eNo: a journal of the arts\u003c/i\u003e. He earned an MFA from Brown University and is currently a Fulbright scholar in Spain.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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