The Lichtenberg Figures

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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Date de sortie11 septembre 2004
LangueAnglais
ÉditeurCopper Canyon Press
CollectionHayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets
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