{"product_id":"the-morning-line-poems-9780822966616","title":"The Morning Line: Poems","description":"\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. 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. \u003cb\u003eExcerpt from \"Fats Waller Live in 1935\"\u003c\/b\u003e Think of that: in 1935 when everyone was supposed to be miserable, here was Fats Waller in his derby hat mustache cigarette and huge grin playing and singing for the sheer joy of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Lehman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/14\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Pitt Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.4lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822966616","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43311362932873,"sku":"9780822966616","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_8889f42e-21d1-43fd-ab28-f647d5893cdc.jpg?v=1738054115","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-morning-line-poems-9780822966616","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}