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...Mean Free Path,” Ben Lerner’s third book of poetry, stands out in its reactionary innovation. “Mean Free Path” is an experiment aiming for the reconstruction, not dismantlement, of poetic forms. Lerner’s book invents a new form as recognizable and systematic as the old ones...
...result of this search is his new collection, “Mean Free Path.” The book is comprised of intimate verse narratives, addressed to a certain “Ari,” who seems to be the narrator’s confidant, or perhaps a lover. The narrator touches on thoughts about everyday life and discusses beauty, love and literature as if he were lying in bed beside Ari, chatting before sleep, almost whispering...
...order to deliver on this intimacy, Lerner has attempted to invent an entirely new form, rather than following the pre-existing structure of the sonnet or writing with the openness of free verse. He strictly regulates meter, punctuation, and stanza breaks, but not without constant and subtle variations, which permit his poems to avoid what Pound denounced as the “sequence of a metronome...
...been a bewildering experience for fans—buying tickets for shows over a year away, internalizing the band’s amusing nonchalance toward the whole event in countless interviews, and, just last week, watching shaky handheld videos of the first reunion shows half a world away in New Zealand and Australia. Some signs of old age emerged—guitarist Scott Kannberg revealed on his blog that at their first show back, frontman Stephen Malkmus played “Here” instead of “The Hexx” because he didn’t have...
...this makes the new release of “Quarantine the Past”—Pavement’s first greatest hits album—so baffling. The very existence of a greatest hits album for this band—whose closest approximation of a hit was 1994’s “Cut Your Hair,” which peaked at the giddy height of 10 on the Billboard Alternative Chart—seems more or less unnecessary, but even when one accepts the notion, this particular collection of songs proves frustratingly off. Many classics make...