Pitt Poetry #: The Morning Line

Poems

Pitt Poetry #: The Morning Line
David Lehman
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h229 x 152mm - 96pg
28 Oct 2021 US
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9780822966616
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The Morning Line is David Lehman' s most ambitious book to date, combining wit, quotidian charm, and off-the-cuff spontaneity of poems written with candid and moving meditations on life, love, aging, disease, friendship, chance, and the possibility of redemption in a godless age. Lehman is a poetic ventriloquist, and he expertly imitates Catullus and Francois Villon in new poems and offers his fresh translations of Mayakovsky' s "Cloud in Trousers" and Hoelderlin' s "Half-Life. " The element of joie de vivre in Lehman' s work is distinctive and unusual in contemporary poetry.

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"In The Morning Line, David Lehman engages us at his most companionable. His voice is inclusive and intimate, his intelligence inexhaustible, embracing subjects ranging from the perfect martini and accompanying jazz recording to profound questions of faith. Reading David Lehman is an antidote for loneliness. " --John Hennessy, author of Coney Island Pilgrims "The Morning Line arrives like some miraculous rendition of your favorite tune, only stylized and torqued to his jocular spirit and encyclopedic range. Buoyant, wildly funny, and terrifically alive, his poems summon that forgotten age where wit and learnedness reigned and the reader, enriched by a jetsetting speed, reemerged soulfully fortified. " --Major Jackson, author of The Absurd Man "David Lehman is a writer of many kinds of poetry, many kinds of prose, but whatever he writes is unmistakably his--and ours. Lehman lets us become who we are, which sounds as if it should be easy: we need him, and, until he writes even more, The Morning Line is his best book. " --James Longenbach, author of How Poems Get Made
David Lehman is the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry and Great American Prose Poems. He is also the general editor of the annual The Best American Poetry, which he initiated in 1988. His recent books of poetry include Poems in the Manner Of an
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ISBN-13: 9780822966616
Published: 28 Oct 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 96

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