The Morning Line: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

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.

• | Author: David Lehman
• | Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• | Publication Date: 14-Sep-21
• | Number of Pages: 96 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0822966611
• | ISBN-13: 9780822966616