Biography of David Lehman
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David Lehman (1948 - Present)
David Lehman was born in New York City in 1948. He graduated from Columbia College, attended Cambridge University as a Kellett Fellow, and received his doctorate from Columbia University. Lehman is the founding editor of The Best American Poetry series and is co-director of the Monday night poetry reading series at the KGB Bar in New York.
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58 Poems written by David Lehman
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The poems are by default sorted according to volume, but you can also choose to sort them alphabetically or by page views.
Volume | Alphabetically | Page Views | Comments | [First Lines]
| First Line | Comments | | "He gave her class. She gave him sex." |
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| "My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: |
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| (July 15) |
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| 700 francs will get you $109.91 |
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| for J.A., December 3, 1975 |
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| As I sit at my desk wishing |
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| Can't swim; uses credit cards and pills to combat |
5 Comments
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| Christmas defeated Chanukah |
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| Come on in and stay a while |
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| Did you know that Evian spelled backwards is naive? |
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| Don't walk away, Renee, |
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| Eighty-one degrees a record high for the day |
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| for Aaron Fogel |
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| for Jim Cummins |
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| He woke up in New York City on Valentine's Day, |
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| His first infidelity was a mistake, but not as big |
1 Comment
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| I could stare for hours |
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| I like walking on streets as black and wet as this one |
1 Comment
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| I was about to be mugged by a man |
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| I'm a very average person, |
1 Comment
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| If Ezra Pound were alive today |
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| If you could write down the words |
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| In Rotterdam I'm |
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| It's my birtday I've got an empty |
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| It's the day of the ram |
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| Ithaca, October 1993: Jorie went on a lingerie |
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| Light rain is falling in Central Park |
2 Comments
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| My bag was missing at the airport |
1 Comment
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| My new Web site is dropdead.com |
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| No two are identical though |
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| Nothing extends a phone |
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| Remember when Khrushchev said |
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| Some people confuse inspiration with lightning |
1 Comment
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| Some people find out they are Jews. |
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| The bloom was off the economic recovery. |
1 Comment
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| The fear of perjuring herself turned into a tacit |
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| The happiest moment in a woman's life |
6 Comments
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| The last Campbell's tomato soup can |
2 Comments
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| The longer I stare the lovelier |
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| The old war is over the new one has begun |
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| The shrink says, "Everything depends |
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| The sky is crumbling into millions of paper dots |
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| The sky was a midnight blue |
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| The woman said yes she would go to Australia with him |
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| The wonderful thing |
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| There comes a time in every man's life |
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| There comes a time when the story turns into twenty |
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| This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere, |
1 Comment
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| Though |
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| We have a name for it |
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| We have too much exhibitionism |
1 Comment
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| We were smoking some of this knockout weed when |
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| What can you say about the Mets |
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| What I propose is not |
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| What is it about the Abyss |
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| When my father |
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| When she says Margarita she means Daiquiri. |
11 Comments
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| Wisteria, hysteria is as obvious a rhyme |
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Books by David Lehman
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by: David Lehman
October 06, 2009