The Lights by Ben Lerner Neil Powell an army massing in the

an army massing in the north

the poems comprise a kind of Bildungsroman exploring themes of boyhood innocence

Life in general might be said to be her subject

and sometimes reminds you of experiences of the past

an orchard underwater

The Lights by Ben Lerner Neil Powell an army massing in theFrom the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times. The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice memos and vignettes, songs and silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. These are poems at once alive to the forces that shape human society and to the rhythms of the natural world, to the power of new