Research Catalog

Title

When a woman loves a man : poems / David Lehman.

Author

Lehman, David, 1948-

Publication

New York : Scribner, 2005.

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Details

Description

xi, 123 pages; 22 cm

Contents

Prologue : Brooklyn Bridge -- When a woman loves a man -- The gift -- Who he was -- Laura -- The human factor -- The double agent -- The magician -- Job and his accusers -- Greenhouses and gardens -- Wittgenstein's ladder -- Sestina : when he called the lawyer -- To the moon -- My life in music -- The old constellation -- Radio -- Psalm -- Anna K. -- Space is limited -- Melancholy superior to indolence -- Sin city -- Six almonds -- To the author of Glare -- Ode to Buddhism -- In Freud's house -- The prophet's lantern -- Abecedarius -- Questions to ask for a Paris Review interview -- Big hair -- Denmark : a tragedy -- A history of modern poetry -- PC -- SF -- Personal -- One day at a time -- Corrections -- The party of ideas -- Sestina -- The James brothers -- Denial -- Travel notes -- Touchstones -- Wystan Hugh Auden : a villanelle -- Poem in the manner of Wallace Stevens as rewritten by Gertrude Stein -- Triplets -- Jim Cummins and David Lehman defeat the masked man -- Poem in the manner of the 1950s -- 1966 -- Plato : the American years -- At LaGuardia -- 1993 -- On a line from The following story -- 9/14/01 -- 9/15/01 -- Like a party -- Venice is sinking -- 12/19/02 -- The knight of faith -- Jew you -- Dante lucked out -- The code of Napoleon -- Song -- End note.

ISBN

0743255941

LCCN

2005041700

OCLC

• ocm57434144
• SCSB-5183292

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries