Leaving the Atocha Station

Name: Leaving the Atocha Station
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ISBN: 9781566892742

ISBN-10: 1566892740

ISBN-13: 9781566892742

Edition: 2011

Authors: Ben Lerner

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Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam’s “research” becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publication date: 8/23/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 186
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Dr. Ben Lerner was an academic all-American wrestler in college and has served as a Chiropractor, nutritionist, and fitness trainer for the US wrestling teams in six World Championships and two Olympics.nbsp;His breakthrough strategies for total health and well-being are the foundation for the Maximized Living Mentor program and the thriving Centers for Maximized Living which he helps open and operate all throughout the U.S. (www.maximizedliving.com)