Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner
Publisher: Coffee House Press

| fine line, very fine line, health care. My skepticism was rooted in the book I had just finished: much of Leaving the Atocha Station is concerned—or rather its protagonist, Adam Gordon, is concerned—with the purpose and practicalities of poetry. Leaving the Atocha Station was on every literary top-ten list when it was first published in 2011, so I suppose it's easy to say I liked it. Leaving the Atocha Station, by Ben Lerner. In Read This Then That, we pair new books with classics that have similar themes, structures, and stories. €�Leaving the Atocha Station” (2011, 181 pgs) by Ben Lerner. I bought a copy of Prufrock and Other Observations recently. Early in Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station, Adam Gordon, a young American poet on fellowship in Spain, is on a camping trip with a group of Spaniards. REVIEWS: Leaving the Atocha Station”. This debut novel was rejected by mainstream publishers and you can see why: its portrait of an American abroad frequently walks a fine lin.. Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station was t. Ben Lerner, out of the novel Leaving the Atocha Station (Coffee House, 2011), talking about the narrative impossibility of some grand percentage of one's experience, periods of “pure transition . MariNaomi Says: May 18th, 2012 at 11:03 am. Maria Says: May 19th, 2012 at 7:04 am.