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Angle of Yaw

National Book Award finalist Kansas Notable Book

Ben Lerner

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.

Binding: paper

ISBN: 1-55659-246-9