by Ben Lerner
"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. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? 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? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by?"--Publisher.
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Arastırmamın ilk safhasında, neredeyse hiç mobilyasi olmayan bir çatı katında -yani Madride geldiğimde baktığım bu ilk dairede- ya kendiliğimden, ya da La Plaza Santa Ana'dan gelen ve görmekte olduğum rüyanm bir parçası olarak algılamayı başaramadığım gürültüye uyanıyor; paslı, ocak üstü espresso makinesinin altını yaktıktan sonra bir esrarlı sigara sararak hafta içi sabah programıma başlıyordum.
