Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's 'research' becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by?
Leaving the Atocha Station
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Author(s)Ben Lerner
PublisherDreamscape Media, LLC
ISBN / ASINB005XXHZ0M
ISBN-13978B005XXHZ07
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Sales Rank81,904
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸