Description: Further DetailsTitle: Leaving the Atocha StationCondition: NewEAN: 9781566892742ISBN: 9781566892742Publisher: Coffee House PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/08/2011Description: Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam’s research” becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by?In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle. Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie. Leaving the Atocha Station is his first novel.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 228mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 232gAuthor: Ben LernerGenre: FictionRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Leaving the Atocha Station
Title: Leaving the Atocha Station
EAN: 9781566892742
ISBN: 9781566892742
Release Date: 09/08/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Leaving the Atocha Station
Number of Pages: 186 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Humorous / Black Humor, Literary, Coming of Age, Political
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 8.2 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Ben Lerner
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
