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Preface to Lyrical Ballads [by Mitch Sisskind]
Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin, yet I say unto you that even Solomon in his glory was not arrayed as one of these. — Matthew 6:28-29…
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How Noir Was My Valley: Have You Written a Noir Poem? [David Lehman asks Suzanne Lummis]
Lehman: Have you written a noir poem? Lummis: Here's one. Femme Fatale It’s a crime story she’s in:betrayal and larceny, few clues.Someone stole what she lived for,made off like a thief in the nightor…
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What Picasso Saw (1940) [by David Lehman]
after fifty-nine yearshe sawthe womanwith two faces there was no such thing as an ex-Catholic or an ex-Spaniardliving in Francefirst Paris with Maxthen back to Madridan old guitarist what can you dowith blue, blindnessand…
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Writing In The Face Of Death: Review of David Lehman’s “One Hundred Autobiographies” [by Sandee Brawarsky in The New York Jewish Week]
David Lehman, October 23, 2019. photo © Stacey Lehman Even when David Lehman can barely walk, he can write, and he can listen. Throughout the three years of his struggle with bladder cancer, he…
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Machine de cirque: something improbably different at La Scala [by Tracy Danison]
Machine de Cirque, quantum acrobacy with gemütlichkeit ©Loup-William Théberge Imagine the Marx Brothers endowed with Buster Keaton’s naïve humor, tutored under Zen discipline by Cirque du Soleil’s best acrobats. You have pretty much imagined Machine de Cirque –…
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“Perfidia” [as sung by Helen Forrest with the Benny Goodman band] plus a poem
Perfidia You don’t know who these people are, or whatThey’ll do to you if you’re caught, but you can’tBack out now: it seems you agreed to carryA briefcase into Germany, and here you are,Glass…
