{"product_id":"9780822966616-the-the-morning-line","title":"The Morning Line","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcerpt from “Fats Waller Live in 1935”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56758255255926,"sku":"9780822966616","price":15.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_37682739.jpg?v=1764368483","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780822966616-the-the-morning-line","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}