ALEXANDER KLUGE y BEN LERNER/ THE SNOWS OF VENICE

A line from Lerners poem The sky stops painting and turns to criticism that Kluge was struck by some years ago became the startin g 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 p oems, stories, and conversations in which the heavens show their bewitching and threatening qualities.