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Ben Lerner & Alexander Kluge – The Snows of Venice
Ben Lerner & Alexander Kluge – The Snows of Venice
Ben Lerner & Alexander Kluge – The Snows of Venice
Ben Lerner & Alexander Kluge – The Snows of Venice
Ben Lerner & Alexander Kluge – The Snows of Venice
Ben Lerner & Alexander Kluge – The Snows of Venice
Ben Lerner & Alexander Kluge – The Snows of Venice
Ben Lerner & Alexander Kluge – The Snows of Venice

Ben Lerner & Alexander Kluge – The Snows of Venice

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Spector Books
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American author Ben Lerner and German filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge come from two different generations but share a single passion: an interest in the long-term effects of things. A line from Lerner’s poem “The sky stops painting and turns to criticism”that Kluge was struck by some years ago became the starting point for their first joint book project. Kluge responded to this celestial critique with a story about the technically controlled power of a squadron of bombers bossing the skies over Aleppo, which Lerner answered with a sonnet. Step by step this gave rise to poems, stories, and conversations in which the heavens show their bewitching and threatening qualities. This literary dialogue is published in The Snows of Venice. A series of twenty-one photographs that Gerhard Richter took in Venice in the 1970s augments the interplay of texts and the principle of interconnecting poetic horizons. Thanks to Spector Books (Leipzig). 

300 pages, 21.5 x 13.5 cm, hardcover, Spector Books (Leipzig).