The Lichtenberg Figures (Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets) by Ben Lerner

Author:Ben Lerner [Lerner, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2012-12-18T06:00:00+00:00

Announcing a late style as distinctive as the late style of Matisse,

my grandfather no longer speaks.

The figure in my grandfather’s memory has disappeared completely.

It has been replaced with a kind of allover abstraction

made up of broad and colorful strokes. Critics agree

that my grandfather’s exaggerated midsection and useless legs

constitute a critique of consumer society,

that his body’s adoption of chance procedures

signals a rejection of his former realist sympathies.

“The progressive surrender of the resistance of the medium

and the exclusion of all techniques extraneous to the medium”

is one way to conceive of artistic modernity:

critics identify the essence of painting with flatness;

sculpture, they argue, rests in peace.

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