The LightsBen Lerner The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. Sometimes the scale is intimate, quiet, and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the animation of our common world. Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights registers the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning

and Aimé Césaire

Met poëzie in al haar verschijningsvormen strijden zij voor een klimaatvriendelijke wereld

You realize

is a maelstrom of voices cast in the underwater shadows and nuclear light of the Anthropocene

translation Joan Seliger Sidney

translated by Lindsay Turner

Both dazzling and devastating

Al deze uiteenlopende thema’s zijn onder één lemma te brengen: Het Leven zelf

Tongo Eisen-Martin

and voiced in the acid niceness of a work email

Fredrik Nyberg

many of the poems in the book are the result of a request or commission to comment upon a work of art