The Lights by Ben Lerner Erin Fornoff Winner of the 2015 Michael

Winner of the 2015 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize

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the realm of the dead and the lives of others: cosmonauts swim in distant space

The Lights by Ben Lerner Erin Fornoff Winner of the 2015 MichaelFrom the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times. 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