The Morning Line
Author | : David Lehman |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2021-09-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780822988342 |
ISBN-13 | : 0822988348 |
Rating | : 4/5 (348 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Morning Line written by David Lehman and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1935 when everyone was supposed to be miserable, here was Fats Waller in his derby hat mustache cigarette and huge grin playing and singing for the sheer joy of it.