Ben Lerner’s First Time

Ben Lerner discusses his first book of poetry, “The Lichtenberg Figures.” Part of “The Paris Review”'s “My First Time” video interview series.
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This series is made by the filmmakers Tom Bean, Casey Brooks, and Luke Poling.

[@GeorgeTengTV]

Yes.

[@nysanarula]

I love this so so much.

[@brandoncheers]

I have the same copy of Proust and Yeats at 1:10

[@LucasFuckingLauridsen]

+Brandon Cook Towards whom are you addressing this communication?

[@brandoncheers]

+Lu cas The good men and women at Penguin Classics and Everyman's Library for putting out such fine and affordable texts

[@Peter32tjrksor]

0:26 Britney Spears voice

[@gypsycrisp7988]

Seriously thought he’d be talking about Leaving the Atocha Station

[@KitCalder]

He sort of did

[@KitCalder]

(Forgive my obtuseness if you meant that ironically)

[@ChurlsBeardSmug]

It's all about who you know ...

[@chadlong1109]

I really enjoyed Leaving Atocha Station and find Lerner to be quite brilliant, but I also think he's at least half full of shit. A lot of semantic gobbledygook that dissolves from memory almost as soon as it's set down.

[@willmulligan3896]

I think he'd agree with that in a funny way.