| Edition |
First Scribner trade paperback edition. |
| Description |
xii, 305 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"Drawing from a wealth of material produced over the course of more than forty years, David Lehman's New and Selected Poems displays the remarkable range of his poetic genius. A gathering of stunning new poems, prose poems, and translations from modern French masters ushers in the book. Selections from each of Lehman's seven full-length books of poetry follow and are capped off by a coda of important early and previously uncollected works. Lehman writes poems that captivate as they stimulate thought, poems that capture the romance, irony, and pathos of love, and poems that are lyrical and lovely in unexpected, sometimes even comic ways. This is David Lehman at his best"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
I. Escape Artist: New Poems (2013) -- Sixteen Tons -- On the Beautiful and Sublime -- Reality Check -- The Great Psychiatrist -- Mother Died Today -- The Laffer Curve -- Story of My Life -- Yours the Moon -- The Breeders' Cup -- Three "Dialogues of One" -- Why I Love "You" -- Autumn Evening -- Talking to the Present -- The Models -- Sermon on the Mount -- The Formula -- Any Place I Hang My Hat -- The Count -- The Ides of March -- The Escape Artist -- Ghost Story -- 1977 -- Lost Weekend -- In the Queen's Chambers -- Zone -- Goethe's Nightsong -- Cento: The True Romantics -- II. Selected Poems (1974 -- 2009) from Yeshiva Boys (2009) -- On Purpose -- Confessions of a Mask -- Homily -- The Real Thing -- Election Day -- Money -- L'Shana Tova -- Paris, 1971 -- French Movie -- Desolation Row -- Yeshiva Boys -- Epilogue -- from When a Woman Loves a Man (2005) -- The Magician -- In Freud's House -- The Human Factor -- Who He Was -- Dante Lucked Out -- Radio -- A History of Modern Poetry -- Like a Party -- Wittgenstein's Ladder -- Anna K. -- Brooklyn Bridge -- The Party of Ideas -- The Prophet's Lantern -- The Code of Napoleon -- The Gift -- When a Woman Loves a Man -- from The Evening Sun: A Journal in Poetry (2002) -- January 1, 8, 20, 23 -- February 11, 21, 28 -- March 8, 30 -- April 24 -- May 26 -- June 4 -- July 20 -- August 16, 25 -- September 5, 7 -- October 2, 11 -- November 14, 22 -- December 8, 30 -- from The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry (2000) -- January 1, 5, 14, 24, 26 -- February 6 -- March 4, 11, 15, 24, 30 -- April 2, 3, 6, 9, 15, 26, 27 or 28, 29 -- May 2, 6, 10 -- July 13, 15 -- October 11 -- November 10, 13, 17, 19, 23, 26 -- December 12, 14, 17, 29 -- from Valentine Place (1996) -- Wedding Song -- Breeze Marine -- Boy with Red Hair -- Flashback -- Who She Was -- The World Trade Center -- Sexism -- from "Valentine Place" First Lines -- Second Thoughts -- Sixth Sense -- Tenth Commandment -- Eleventh Hour -- Last Words -- The Choice -- Dark Passage -- On the Run -- A Little History -- The Secret Life -- Dutch Interior -- The Theory of the Leisure Class -- Stages on Life's Way -- The End of the Affair -- from Operation Memory (1990) -- Pascal's Wager -- Perfidia -- One Size Fits All: A Critical Essay -- With Tenure -- Spontaneous Combustion -- The Survivors -- The Answering Stranger -- Rejection Slip -- The Desire for Strange Cities -- Mythologies -- Operation Memory -- Fear -- New York City, 1974 -- Cambridge, 1972 -- For I Will Consider Your Dog Molly -- from An Alternative to Speech (1986) -- Enigma Variations -- Glose -- The Master of Ceremonies -- Gift Means Poison in German -- Shake the Superflux! -- Ode -- The Thirty-nine Steps -- The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke -- Sonnet -- The More You Have to Lose -- Early and Uncollected Poems -- Literal Lives (1989) -- Nirvana (1978) -- October Classic (1973) -- Robert Desnos (1973) -- Simplicity (1972) -- from "Goodbye Instructions" (1970-1972) -- Traces (1967) -- The Presidential Years (1967). |
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Poetry.
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POETRY -- General.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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Lyrik.
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Amerikanisches Englisch.
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Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
9781476731872 (pbk.) |
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147673187X (pbk.) |
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9781476731889 (ebook) |
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1476731888 (ebook) |
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