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\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;The Morning Line\u0026lt;/i\u0026gt; is David Lehman\u0026#8217;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.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Lehman is a poetic ventriloquist, and he expertly imitates Catullus and Fran\u0026#231;ois Villon in new poems and offers his fresh translations of Mayakovsky\u0026#8217;s âCloud in Trousersâ and H\u0026#246;lderlin\u0026#8217;s âHalf-Life.â The element of joie de vivre in Lehman\u0026#8217;s work is distinctive and unusual in contemporary poetry. \u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Excerpt from âFats Waller Live in 1935â\u0026lt;/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Think of that: in 1935\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;when everyone was supposed\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;to be miserable, here was Fats Waller\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;in his derby hat mustache cigarette and huge grin\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;playing and singing for the sheer joy of it. |
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