"One Hundred Autobiographies": A brief preview [by David Lehman]

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November 04, 2016

"One Hundred Autobiographies": A brief preview [by David Lehman]

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David Lehman, poet and columnist for our website, is writing a book about his cancer diagnosis and recovery. “In a way, the book has the logic of a poem,” he says. “But the illness and the treatments are really a springboard for memory, dream, fantasy, invention—all the ways we try to escape—and for taking stock of your life and the ultimate questions that face you when you take seriously the fact that you may die sooner than you thought.” The following passage is from Lehman’s manuscript in progress.

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Click here to read the excerpt as posted on the website of The American Scholar, home of and host of "Next Line, Please" among many other notable weekly features.

Posted by The Best American Poetry on November 04, 2016 at 08:56 PM in Adventures of Lehman, Feature | Permalink

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"Lively and affectionate" Publishers Weekly

Radio

I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark

from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman