Ben Lerner - The Hatred of Poetry Literature and before we condemn them

and before we condemn them we would do well to ask ourselves this question: would we do as well were the tables to be turned

Hänninen is moved by climate change to review how we look at the future

while sleeping on his boat

gravel pits

training his eye on the shapes and forms of the everyday—dark abstractions of asphalt and sea

Ben Lerner - The Hatred of Poetry Literature and before we condemn themNo art has been denounced as often as poetry. Its even bemoaned by poets: I, too, dislike it, wrote Marianne Moore. Many more people agree they hate poetry, Ben Lerner writes, than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore. In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner