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Benjamin S. Lerner (born February 4, 1979) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a finalist for the National Book Award, a Howard Foundation Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and he is currently a MacArthur Fellow. In 2011 he won the "Preis der Stadt Münster für internationale Poesie", making him the first American to receive this honor. Lerner is a professor of English at Brooklyn College.〔http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=1025 〕 ==Life and work== Lerner was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, which figures in each of his books of poetry. He is a 1997 graduate of Topeka High School, where he participated in debate and forensics, winning the 1997 National Forensic League National Tournament in International Extemporaneous Speaking. At Brown University he earned a B.A. in political theory and an MFA in poetry. Lerner was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of 52 sonnets, ''The Lichtenberg Figures''. In 2004, ''Library Journal'' named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry. He traveled on a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, Spain in 2003 where he wrote his second book, ''Angle of Yaw'', which was published in 2006. It was named a finalist for the National Book Award. Lerner's third poetry collection, ''Mean Free Path'', was published in 2010.〔In physics, the “mean free path” of a particle is the average distance it travels before colliding with another particle. The poems in Lerner’s third collection, ''Mean Free Path'' are full of discrete collisions—stutters, repetitions, fragmentations, recombinations—that track how language breaks up or changes course under the emotional pressure of the utterance.〕〔()〕 Lerner's first novel, ''Leaving the Atocha Station,'' published in 2011, won the Believer Book Award.〔http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/ben-lerner-wins-the-believer-book-award_b50967〕 and was a finalist for the ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Award for first fiction and the New York Public Library's Young Lions prize. Excerpts of Lerner's second novel, 10:04, won the Terry Southern Prize from ''The Paris Review''.〔http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/03/12/emma-cline-wins-plimpton-prize-ben-lerner-wins-terry-southern-prize/〕 His essays, art criticism, and literary criticism have appeared in ''Art in America'', ''boundary 2'', ''Frieze'', ''Harper's Magazine'', and ''The Los Angeles Review of Books.'' 〔http://www.gf.org/fellows/17431-ben-lerner〕 In 2008, Lerner began editing poetry for ''Critical Quarterly'', a British scholarly publication. He has taught at California College of the Arts, the University of Pittsburgh, and in 2010 joined the faculty of the MFA program at Brooklyn College. Lerner received a 2015 MacArthur Fellowship. Lerner's mother is the psychologist Harriet Lerner. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ben Lerner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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