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ORDER A VERY SPECIAL EDITION OF BEN LERNER'S COLLECTION HERE!
An exclusive signed, numbered and slipcased edition of Ben Lerner's latest poetry collection - limited to 150 copies in the world!
I have two of these left. 101/150 & 110/150
The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice memos and vignettes, songs and silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. These are poems at once alive to the forces that shape human society and to the rhythms of the natural world, to the power of new technologies and the wonder of our timeless planet. Sometimes the scale is intimate and quiet and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the "collectivization of feeling": "I want everybody out there to sing along, even the stones."
Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights records the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises. And, even while alert to the darkness, it is the light in the book that remains, in dusk, in images from space, in old poems, in power cuts, in the flickering connections between people. From one of the most celebrated writers of his generation, the poems in this collection come to us as beacons, illuminating new possibilities of thought and feeling.
The copies I have are still sealed in their brown packaging, unopened. I was tempted to have a peek, but I know that some people would prefer it like this, so i thought i'd leave it up to the people who bought them to decide what they wanted to do.
Here's a pic of what the book will look like (this isn't one of my copies)
If you do want one of these, please let me know which of the two you'd like.
(My website only accepts paypal, so if you'd like this, but don't want to use paypal, email biggreenbooks@gmail.com, and we can sort out an alternative)
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