This book brings together for the first time Ben Lerner's three acclaimed volumes of poetry, along with a handful of newer poems, to present a decade-long exploration of the relationship between form and meaning, between private experience and public expression. No Art is an exhilarating argument both with America and with poetry itself, in which online slang is juxtaposed with academic idiom, philosophy collides with advertising, and the language of medicine and the military is overlaid with echoes of Whitman and Keats. Here, clichés are cracked open and made new, made strange, and formal experiments disclose new possibilities of thought and feeling. No Art confirms Ben Lerner as one of the most searching and ambitious poets working today.
- ISBN10 1783782749
- ISBN13 9781783782741
- Publish Date 3 November 2016
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 December 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Granta Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English