The Morning Line
David Lehman
University of Pittsburgh Press 
Belletristik / Lyrik, Dramatik
Beschreibung
<i>The Morning Line</i> 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. <b>Excerpt from “Fats Waller Live in 1935”</b> 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.
Kundenbewertungen
poetry in translation, Guggenheim fellow, Pitt Poetry Series, Oxford Book of American Poetry, Catullus, François Villon, Mayakovsky, New York School of poets, New School faculty, NYU faculty, Hölderlin, Best American Poetry