HOME View All Genre

Book

Audiobook

GENRES 🌙 Dark

The Morning Line - David Lehman

By David Lehman

Release Date: 2021-09-14

Genre: Poetry

(0 ratings)
Read Download
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.

The Morning Line - David Lehman

By David Lehman

Release Date: 2021-09-14

Genre: Poetry

(0 ratings)
Read Download
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.

More by David Lehman

MiPOesias iPad Companion

The Best American Poetry 2010

Best of the Best American Poetry

The Best American Poetry 2011

The Best American Poetry 2012

The Best American Erotic Poems

The Best American Poetry 2015

The Best American Poetry 2013

The Best of the Best American Poetry

The Best American Poetry 2021

The Best American Poetry 2019

Best American Poetry 2017

The Best American Poetry 2014

The Best American Poetry 2022

The Best American Poetry 2020

Great American Prose Poems

The Best American Poetry 2023

Best American Poetry 2018

Best American Poetry 2016

The Best American Poetry 2024

The Best American Poetry 2008

The Best American Poetry 2025

A Fine Romance

The Best American Poetry 2007

New and Selected Poems

The Best American Poetry 1997

The Best American Poetry 1995

The Daily Mirror

Poems in the Manner Of

Sinatra's Century

When a Woman Loves a Man

The Mysterious Romance of Murder

One Hundred Autobiographies

The Evening Sun

Yeshiva Boys

The Morning Line

The State of the Art

Playlist

Related Articles