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.
| ISBN: | 9780822966616 |
| Publication date: | 28th December 2021 |
| Author: | David Lehman |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 96 pages |
| Series: | Pitt Poetry Series |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |