Lichtenberg Figures

Name: Lichtenberg Figures
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ISBN: 9781556592119

ISBN-10: 1556592116

ISBN-13: 9781556592119

Edition: 2004

Authors: Ben Lerner

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The Lichtenberg Figures, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationship between language and memory, violence and form. "Lichtenberg figures" are fern-like electrical patterns that can appear on (and quickly fade from) the bodies of people struck by lightning. Throughout this playful and elegiac debut-with its flashes of autobiography, intellection, comedy, and critique-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. Ben Lerner, the youngest poet ever published by Copper Canyon Press, is co-founder of No: a…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 9/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.20" tall
Weight: 0.286
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)