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Author - Ben Lerner
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experience
Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that....
criticism
And when you are foolish enough to identify yourself as a poet, your interlocutors will often ask: A....
paintings
Since the world is ending,” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings?....
novel
I don’t want what we’re doing to just end up as notes for a novel.
poet
Most of us carry at least a weak sense of a correlation between poetry and human possibility that cannot....
anxiety
And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between....
prose
I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays....
problem
The fatal problem with poetry: poems.
literature
There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich....
body
My experience of my body was her experience once removed, which meant my body was dissolved, and that’s....
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