David Lehman‘s most recent books are New and Selected Poems (Scribner, 2013) and A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (Schocken), which won the ASCAP’s Deems Taylor Award in 2010. He launched The Best American Poetry in 1988 and continues as the annual anthology’s general editor.
Poetry
July/Aug 2019
What Kafka Meant
When Kafka was asked what he had in common with Jews he stretched out his arms beseechingly and said he had nothing in common with himself please keep that in […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2019
Correspondences
The speaker with his hand held to his mouth like a shield corresponded to the expensive shrink with his hearing aid turned off who was like the surgeon enjoying a […]
Poetry
Spring 2004
Poem in the Male Manner
I just chose the hardest left turn to make in all of Ithaca. Go ahead, asshole. I won’t stop you. If you’re taking notes you can say the world has […]
Poetry
Spring 2004
Poem in the Manner of Vladimir Mayakovsky
Like a giant in slippers reading the morning news of an event that hasn’t yet happened I wear my robe of authority like the majestic girth of a great detective […]