{"product_id":"the-morning-line-poems-paperback","title":"The Morning Line: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Lehman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Morning Line\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLehman 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcerpt from \"Fats Waller Live in 1935\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThink of that: in 1935\u003cbr\u003ewhen everyone was supposed\u003cbr\u003eto be miserable, here was Fats Waller\u003cbr\u003ein his derby hat mustache cigarette and huge grin\u003cbr\u003eplaying and singing for the sheer joy of it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Lehman's\u003c\/b\u003e books include \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePlaylist: A Poem\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Book of American Poetry \u003c\/i\u003eand 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 14, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53551250604339,"sku":"9780822966616","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/the-morning-line-poems-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}