Cover of The Lichtenberg figures

The Lichtenberg figures

by Ben Lerner

2004 53 pages eng

"The Lichtenberg Figures, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award for Emerging Poets, is a sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationships between language and memory, violence and form. The book takes its title from the fernlike patterns that sometimes appear (and quickly fade) in the aftermath of a…

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