Medias
The Lichtenberg Figures
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The Lichtenberg Figures, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationship between language and memory, violence and form. “Lichtenberg figures” are fern-like electrical patterns that can appear on (and quickly fade from) the bodies of people struck by lightning.Throughout this playful and elegiac debut—with its flashes of autobiography, intellection, comedy, and critique—the vocabulary of academic theory collides with
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Technical specifications
Release date | September 11th 2004 |
Language | English |
Publisher | Copper Canyon Press |
Collection | Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets |
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Accessibility | No information is available regarding the accessibility of the format Paper |