Angle of Yaw
Finalist for the National Book Award
2007 Kansas Notable Book
“The Angle of Yaw... places Lerner among the most promising young poets now writing” —Publishers Weekly
Named to the “100 Noteworthy Books of 2006” list by the Kansas City Star
Angle of Yaw, Ben Lerner's ambitious second book, is an extended meditation on the commercialization of public space and speech. Combining philosophical insight with poetic experiment, political outrage with personal experience, Lerner's prose poems and lyrical sequences examine how technologies of viewing—aerial photography in particular—replace God with a camera, and feed our spectacular culture an image of itself.
ISBN: 1-55659-246-9