Mean Free Path

by Ben Lerner

Book Overview

"Lerner is] among the most promising young poets now writing."--Publishers Weekly

"Sharp, ambitious, and impressive." --Boston Review

National Book Award finalist Ben Lerner turns to science once again for his guiding metaphor. "Mean free path" is the average distance a particle travels before colliding with another particle. The poems in Lerner's third collection are full of layered collisions--repetitions, fragmentations,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556593147
• ISBN13: 9781556593147
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.9" x 9.2"