{"product_id":"leaving-the-atocha-station-9781566892742","title":"Leaving the Atocha Station by Lerner, Ben","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's \"research\" becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Atocha Station\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle.\u003cp\u003eBorn in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979, \u003cb\u003eBen Lerner\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three books of poetry \u003ci\u003eThe Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMean Free Path.\u003c\/i\u003e He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt M nster f r Internationale Poesie. \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Atocha Station\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ben Lerner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/23\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566892742\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Literary Award - Runner-Up\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Saroyan Writing Prize - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Sami Rohr Prize - Runner-Up\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/04\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2011 pg. 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2011 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/31\/2011 pg. 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/08\/2011 pg. 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/19\/2011 pg. 139\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/11\/2012 pg. 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry \u003ci\u003eThe Lichtenberg Figures\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAngle of Yaw\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMean Free Path\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie. \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Atocha Station\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43655603880089,"sku":"9781566892742","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0572\/3367\/0297\/files\/img_7da93e6b-221f-4774-8fd9-a8daa0a1805e.jpg?v=1724707034","url":"https:\/\/bookmarksretail.store\/products\/leaving-the-atocha-station-9781566892742","provider":"Bookmarks Retail","version":"1.0","type":"link"}