The Daily Mirror Tapa blanda - 2000

Following in the footsteps of such poets as Emily Dickinson, William Stafford, and Frank O'Hara, David Lehman began writing a poem a day in 1996 and found the experience so rewarding that he continued for the next two years. During that time, some of these poems appeared in various journals and on Web sites, including The Poetry Daily site, which ran thirty of Lehman's poems in as many days throughout the month of April 1998.
For The Daily Mirror, Lehman has selected the best of these "daily poems" -- each tied to a specific occasion or situation -- and telescoped two years into one. Spontaneous and immediate, but always finely crafted and spiced with Lehman's signature irony and wit, the poems are akin to journal entries charting the passing of time, the deaths of great men and women, the news of the day. Jazz, Sinatra, the weather, love, poetry and poets, movies, and New York City are among their recurring themes.
A departure from Lehman's previous work, this unique volume provides the intimacy of a diary, full of passion, sound, and fury, but with all the aesthetic pleasure of poetry. More a party of poems than a standard collection, The Daily Mirror presents an exciting new way to think about poetry.

Detalles

• Título The Daily Mirror
• Autor David Lehman
• Encuadernación Tapa blanda
• Edición First Edition
• Páginas 160
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Scribner Book Company, New York, NY
• Fecha de publicación 2000-01-01
• ISBN 9780684864938 / 0684864932
• Peso 0.46 libras (0.21 kg)
• Dimensiones 8.41 x 5.54 x 0.48 pulgadas (21.36 x 14.07 x 1.22 cm)
• Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 99037041
• Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

Mark Strand I can think of no book of poems written in recent years that is nearly so entertaining as The Daily Mirror. It is the work of a quick mind unflustered by the Big Apple. Its wit is dazzling, its charm constant, its immediacy refreshing. It is, quite simply, a terrific read.