A collection of poems and prose poems by Ben Lerner, organized around light, night, grief, fatherhood and the ordinary and civic life of the present. Moving between lyric, essay and anecdote, it takes in museums, paintings, a residency and the speaker's daughters.
Books mentioned in The Lights (2)
Specimen Days by Walt Whitman: “'sunburnt from reading Specimen Days on the small porch across the street'”
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman: “'who is being addressed in the last stanza of Crossing Brooklyn Ferry?'”