If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.


Leaving the Atocha Station (ed. Granta Books, 2012) - ISBN: 9781847086907

Ben Lerner Quotes

If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so...

If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so...

If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so...

If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so...