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 Fran ois Villon in new poems and offers his fresh translations of Mayakovsky's "Cloud in Trousers" and H lderlin's "Half-Life." The element of joie de vivre in Lehman's work is distinctive and unusual in contemporary poetry.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 09/14/2021
ISBN: 9780822966616
Pages: 96