A review by skoppelkam
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner

4.0

I love when something is this smart and this completely unpretentious. Lerner is clear and graceful in an argument about the impossibility of poetry (and art in general), an argument that is both complex and stunningly simple. Not quite sure what to make of his marginalia, but they frequently made me laugh and crystallized the points they accompanied.