David Lehman
David Lehman
David Lehmanis a poet and the series editor for The Best American Poetry. He teaches at The New School in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
CountryUnited States of America
college community life speaker
Like everything at the end of the session, there's going to be a scramble. The Speaker has said community college is on life support, but it's not dead.
american-poet dictate enter fixed initial magnetic orbit owns spin wider
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
mean artist criticism
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
writing soul reviews
If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
book technique metaphor
I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It is an homage to Wallace Stevens that appropriates certain of his techniques.