Ben Lerner is the author of three poetry collections, The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path, and of three novels, Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04, and The Topeka School. Lerner teaches in the writing program at Brooklyn College.

The Poetic Establishment Has Co-opted Contradiction

by Ben Lerner

The poetic establishment has co-opted

contradiction.
And the poetic establishment has not co-opted contradiction.
Are these poems just cumbersome
or are these poems a critique of cumbersomeness?

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