The first in a new series on evolving forms of communication
This book tracks the relationship between binary code and Leibniz’s Monadology; the technological and cosmological aspects of non-Western writing systems; and the power of the alphabet song.
Born in Kansas in 1979, BEN LERNER is the author of three books of poetry, The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Münster State Prize for International Poetry. He teaches in the writing program at Brooklyn College. This is his first novel.