The Lights Komijnsplitsers a sister’s death

a sister’s death

een drukke baan

Home Radio brings together 75 poems written between 2011 and 2020

with Fatema Abdoolcarim

Tongo Eisen-Martin

The Lights Komijnsplitsers a sister’s deathBen Lerner The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. Sometimes the scale is intimate, quiet, and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the animation of our common world. Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights registers the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning