The Lights by Ben Lerner Erin Fornoff arms stretched

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Individuals move through the night and come upon themselves in its mirrors

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The Lights by Ben Lerner Erin Fornoff arms stretchedFrom the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times. The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice memos and vignettes, songs and silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. These are poems at once alive to the forces that shape human society and to the rhythms of the natural world, to the power of new