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Radical Play,
This review is from: When a Woman Loves a Man: Poems (Paperback)
Central to Lehman's work is a radical playfulness, an essential ingredient of great poetry. He is one of the U.S.'s most inventive writers, particularly in his use of traditional and sui generis forms. Plus, he is funny, which,in a literary world where often only deadly seriousness will win you any respect, can sometimes be a strike against a poet. Read "The Gift," "Wittgenstein's Ladder," "Psalm," "Six Almonds," and "The James Brothers" to see what I mean. Since John Ashbery revitalized the sestina with his "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape," included in his 1970 book The Double Dream of Spring, sestinas have become all the rage. Lehman is one of the most accomplished practitioners of this exacting form, as the brilliant "Big Hair" and "Sestina," from this new colection, demonstrate. This is Lehman's best book of poems.
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When a Woman Loves a Man: Poems by David Lehman (Paperback - April 5, 2005)
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