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. Excerpt from “Fats Waller Live in 1935”Think of that: in 1935when everyone was supposedto be miserable, here was Fats Wallerin his derby hat mustache cigarette and huge grinplaying and singing for the sheer joy of it.
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- Utgivningsdatum2021-09-14
- Mått152 x 229 x 8 mm
- Vikt181 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- SeriePitt Poetry Series
- Antal sidor96
- FörlagUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
- ISBN9780822966616
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