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For a poem to address someone-for it to be experienced-that person must be truly other. Intimacy, in this view, requires not only some initial state of contact but also a subsequent separation.

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It was important to part yesterday in a serial work about lights so that distance could enter the voice and address you tonight.

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In “Mean Free Path” (2010), he wrote of finally being ready for “the recurring / dream of waking.” Poetry was a hidden door, not so far from a wardrobe, that could lead into the world from which he’d withdrawn. But actual life felt distant, ironized Lerner was always retreating from experience, or, in his own words, sleeping through it. And yet she will only play with a box that once contained a toy.” Just so, the “built spaces” of prose allowed Lerner to play with the poetry they seemed once to contain, to draw potential pleasures into existence. In “Angle of Yaw” (2006), Lerner began to experiment with prose poems, not unlike the child he describes in one of them: “If you make her a present of a toy, she will discard it and play with the box.

The title of his first collection, “The Lichtenberg Figures” (2004), refers to the branching patterns that can briefly appear on surfaces after lightning strikes the implication was that the book’s sonnets were evanescent records of contact, each poem its own glass dome.

Lerner, a poet who has found a second life as a novelist, has been attempting versions of that book for nearly twenty years. Max’s bedroom becoming jungle, Harold drawing the moon / into existence.” Those books, which he read as a child and which now he reads to his young daughters, suggest a model for the kind of book he wants to be writing. “All my favorite books,” Lerner writes, “were about built spaces / shading into wilds, worlds, Narnia through the wardrobe / . . . He tells the story in his fourth collection of poems, “The Lights” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). More importantly, it equips you to beat it again if it ever returns to disturb your dreams.Visit us on the Web at Sleepplace.Between the “I” who remembers the sleepless night and the “I” who probably slept for hours is another blurry border, on both sides of which we find Ben Lerner. With advice on improving sleep hygiene and diet, the right exercise, relaxation techniques, and more, No More Sleepless Nights Workbook helps you conquer your own poor sleep right now. Filled with interactive quizzes, sleep logs, and self-evaluation exercises, which may be used in conjunction with the patented Sleep Timer, the workbook will help you uncover the underlying cause of your own sleep problem, and then put together a personalized action plan for getting a good night's rest. In this sensible, simple-to-follow workbook, based on the acclaimed No More Sleepless Nights program, one of the world's leading insomnia experts gives you the tools to be your own sleep therapist. Give yourself a good night's rest If you suffer from poor sleep, help is in your hands-literally. with step-by-step suggestions.'-Publishers Weekly 'Nearly everything you always wanted to know about sleep and what can go wrong with it. 'The best book this reviewer has seen on insomnia.'-Library Journal