The Lights Finisterra The Book of a Thousand

The Book of a Thousand Eyes was begun as an homage to Scheherazade

Oscillating through binaries

and poets screaming in their tombs with mouths full of dirt

Zijn stemmingen en remmingen

rusteloze klaagzang vol spitsvondigheid en schrijnende beelden

The Lights Finisterra The Book of a ThousandBen 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