The Lights Finisterra these narratives of history

these narratives of history

and poets screaming in their tombs with mouths full of dirt

one of America’s most influential living poets continues to prove her worthiness of that title

Abstractive Treatise on Obeuse by Paul Colinet

maar zo ongecompliceerd is dat begin maar zelden

The Lights Finisterra these narratives of historyBen 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