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<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.<br><br>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. <br><br><b>Excerpt from “Fats Waller Live in 1935”</b><br><br>Think of that: in 1935<br>when everyone was supposed<br>to be miserable, here was Fats Waller<br>in his derby hat mustache cigarette and huge grin<br>playing and singing for the sheer joy of it.
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<b>David Lehman’s</b> books include <i>One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir</i> and <i>Playlist: A Poem</i>. He is the editor of <i>The Oxford Book of American Poetry </i>and series editor of The Best American Poetry. He has written nonfiction books about the New York School of poets, classic American popular songs, Frank Sinatra, and mystery novels, among other subjects.
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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.
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- PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication date2021
- ISBN 10 0822966611
- ISBN 13 9780822966616
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages96
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