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I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore. His third poetry collection, mean free path, was published in 2010. Theres no evidence here that art, and therefore poetry, can save us. Ordinarily, im not a fan of this kind of spinningoneswheelsinthesand. Leaving the atocha station is ben lerner s first novel. Even in the face of tragedy, adam remains largely incapable of experiencing something like a real experience whatever that is. Leaving the atocha station is a recent novel written by a young american poet who spent a year living in madrid as part of an academic fellowship. Buy a cheap copy of leaving the atocha station book by ben lerner. The narrator is a poet who is on a fellowship in spain in 2004 and the narrative reflects the hyper selfawareness of the experience of. Lerner is a poet, but this isn t a poetic novel, by which i mean the kind of work. Having lived in a country where i didnt speak the language fluently, the sections where he struggles with his diverse interpretations of peoples conversations were particularly amusing. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app.
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