The Morning Line: Poems
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021
eISBN: 978-0-8229-8834-2 | Paper: 978-0-8229-6661-6
Library of Congress Classification PS3562.E428M67 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
eISBN: 978-0-8229-8834-2 | Paper: 978-0-8229-6661-6
Library of Congress Classification PS3562.E428M67 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 François Villon in new poems and offers his fresh translations of Mayakovsky’s “Cloud in Trousers” and Hölderlin’s “Half-Life.” The element of joie de vivre in Lehman’s work is distinctive and unusual in contemporary poetry.
Lehman is a poetic ventriloquist, and he expertly imitates Catullus and François Villon in new poems and offers his fresh translations of Mayakovsky’s “Cloud in Trousers” and Hölderlin’s “Half-Life.” The element of joie de vivre in Lehman’s work is distinctive and unusual in contemporary poetry.
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