Abstract
ABSTRACT Examining Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04, and The Topeka School (2011–2019), this article reads Lerner’s novels as centrally engaged in the (re)imagination of community. In the first two novels, this negotiation of collectivity involves essayistic reflection on poetry as an artistic mode that is strongly attuned to the collective, through the affect elicited by prosody. By contrast, in the third novel, Lerner translates the insights offered by the previous works into a narrative-level syntax that captures the intermental functioning of a community in the titular Topeka.
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