The Lights by Ben Lerner Neil Powell Over the years

Over the years

and sometimes reminds you of experiences of the past

an orchard underwater

the poems comprise a kind of Bildungsroman exploring themes of boyhood innocence

The Lights by Ben Lerner Neil Powell Over the yearsFrom the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times. The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice memos and vignettes, songs and silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. These are poems at once alive to the forces that shape human society and to the rhythms of the natural world, to the power of new