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A review by sapovnela
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
4.0
this is a book i know i'll revisit.
while not agreeing with everything that lerner exhibits i cannot deny the stars in my eyes that shone all through the idea of a thought [dream] being the actual poem and the distances between it and the tangibility that language provides, even now chills run trough my spine as an avid lover of words and souls.
i would say there are a handful of ambivalent takes and although i don't exactly catalogue this essay as presumptuous i would say it dives too deep into takes that (funny enough for his own author) are taken as universal by the individual who wrote them.
summing up the central thesis of this book i can see lerner going "damn poems, they ruined Poetry (with capital P)" [lol]
while not agreeing with everything that lerner exhibits i cannot deny the stars in my eyes that shone all through the idea of a thought [dream] being the actual poem and the distances between it and the tangibility that language provides, even now chills run trough my spine as an avid lover of words and souls.
i would say there are a handful of ambivalent takes and although i don't exactly catalogue this essay as presumptuous i would say it dives too deep into takes that (funny enough for his own author) are taken as universal by the individual who wrote them.
summing up the central thesis of this book i can see lerner going "damn poems, they ruined Poetry (with capital P)" [lol]