Ben Lerner

Unknown Sources of Lift

“I think there’s an understandable but perilous tendency to conflate art and artist when the artist in question uses autobiographical elements in their work.”

The Storyteller

W.G. Sebald’s books suggest that we are powerless to remember adequately and powerless to forget.

The Lights

Past Imperfect

Erica Hunt’s Jump the Clock is eerily appropriate for a time when a pandemic has suspended the normal temporal rhythms for so many of us, while laying bare our mortally uneven relationship to those rhythms.

The Son

The Rose

a poem

Les Marronniers

a poem

The Pistil

a poem

Also Known as Hurtsickle, Cyani Flower, and Bachelor’s Button

a poem