Ben Lerner's debut collection, a sequence of unrhymed fourteen-line sonnets that fracture and recombine speech, cliche, political and domestic scenes. Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, it takes its title from the branching patterns left by electrical discharge.
Books mentioned in The Lichtenberg Figures (3)
Paradise Lost by John Milton: “'I confused her body for a simplified prose version of Paradise Lost.'”
Tungsten by Cesar Vallejo: “'Her death is the author of Tungsten, Cesar Vallejo's social-realist experiment.'”
The Complete Posthumous Poetry by Cesar Vallejo: “'My death is the author of Cesar Vallejo: The Complete Posthumous Poetry.'”