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Ben Lerner was born in Kansas in 1979. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, Howard and MacArthur Foundations. His first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, won the 2012 Believer Book Award. His second novel, 10:04, was a finalist for the Folio Prize and was named one of the best books of 2014 by more than a dozen major publications. He has published three poetry collections: The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw (a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry), and Mean Free Path. Lerner is a professor of English at Brooklyn College.
'This intriguing book is a defence of poetry and a defence of the denunciation of it. But in the end, it's a romance.' -- Stephen Romei Australian 'Swift and casually erudite...a vivid catalogue.' Age 'Lucid and engaging' and 'witty and wise...Lerner transcends the battles over poetry's proper provenance.' Saturday Paper 'Compelling and agile...Lerner shows a route to bring poetry out of godliness, to make it specific, dynamic, fertile.' Australian 'Mr. Lerner skates across this frozen lake of pique with delicate skill...The book achieves its goal in the most circuitous of ways: by its (lovely) last sentence, Mr. Lerner might get you longing for the satisfactions of the thing you're conditioned to loathe.' New York Times
