{"product_id":"mean-free-path-paperback","title":"Mean Free Path - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBen Lerner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Lerner  is] among the most promising young poets now writing.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sharp, ambitious, and impressive.\" --\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNational Book Award finalist Ben Lerner turns to science once again for his guiding metaphor. \"Mean free path\" is the average distance a particle travels before colliding with another particle. The poems in Lerner's third collection are full of layered collisions--repetitions, fragmentations, stutters, re-combinations--that track how language threatens to break up or change course under the emotional pressures of the utterance. And then there's the larger collision of love, and while Lerner questions whether love poems are even possible, he composes a gorgeous, symphonic, and complicated one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou startled me. I thought you were sleeping\u003cbr\u003eIn the traditional sense. I like looking\u003cbr\u003eAt anything under glass, especially\u003cbr\u003eGlass. \u003c\/i\u003eYou\u003ci\u003e called \u003c\/i\u003eme\u003ci\u003e. Like overheard\u003cbr\u003eDreams. I'm writing this one as a woman\u003cbr\u003eComfortable with failure. I promise I will never\u003cbr\u003eBut the predicate withered. If you are\u003cbr\u003eUncomfortable seeing this as portraiture\u003cbr\u003eClose your eyes. No, \u003c\/i\u003eyou\u003ci\u003e startled\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Lerner\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three books of poetry and was named a finalist for the National Book Award for his second book, \u003ci\u003eAngle of Yaw\u003c\/i\u003e. He holds degrees from Brown University, co-founded \u003ci\u003eNo: a journal of the arts\u003c\/i\u003e, and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Lerner is the author of three books of poetry and was named a finalist for the National Book Award for his second book, Angle of Yaw. He holds degrees from Brown Univeristy, co-founded No: a journal of the arts, and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 69\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9.2 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42714838237247,"sku":"9781556593147","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e0b2ccd47071d2f2fe733b76742372a3.webp?v=1765069406","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/mean-free-path-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}