6/27/2023 0 Comments Leaving the atocha stationLerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was published by Coffee House Press in August 2011. Lerner's third full-length poetry collection, Mean Free Path, was published in 2010. He traveled on a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, Spain in 2003 where he wrote his second book, Angle of Yaw, which was published in 2006 and was subsequently named a finalist for the National Book Award, and was selected by Brian Foley as one of the "25 important books of poetry of the 00s (2000-2009)". in Political Theory and an MFA in Poetry. The Lichtenberg Figures appeared in a German translation in 2010, for which it received the "Preis der Stadt Münster für internationale Poesie" in 2011, making Lerner the first American to receive this honor.īorn and raised in Topeka, which figures in each of his books of poetry, Lerner is a 1997 graduate of Topeka High School where he was a standout in debate and forensics. In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, The Lichtenberg Figures. Ben Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic.
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