{"product_id":"9780822966616","title":"The Morning Line : Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Morning Line 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExcerpt from \"Fats Waller Live in 1935\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThink of that: in 1935\n\u003cbr\u003ewhen everyone was supposed\n\u003cbr\u003eto be miserable, here was Fats Waller\n\u003cbr\u003ein his derby hat mustache cigarette and huge grin\n\u003cbr\u003eplaying and singing for the sheer joy of it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45398782410831,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":630.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9780822966616-1.jpg?v=1782184398","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9780822966616","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}