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The 2011 Lehman Lecture in association with The Kingston Writing School Professor David Lehman, Distinguished Visiting Writer "From Parody to Praise: When Poems Talk to Other Poems" Professor David Lehman was born in New York City in 1948. He graduated from Columbia University and attended Cambridge University in England as a Kellett Fellow. He also received a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. He is the author of several collections of poems, including When a Woman Loves a Man (Scribner, 2005).  His books of criticism include The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets (Doubleday, 1998).  His study of detective novels, The Perfect Murder (1989), was nominated for an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.  He is series editor of The Best American Poetry, which he initiated in 1988, and is general editor of the University of Michigan Press's Poets on Poetry Series.  Most recently, Lehman edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry ...

Eyewear is thrilled to feature a new poem by famed American poet, anthologist, and critic David Lehman this Tuesday.  The photo above, by Star Black , features Lehman with John Ashbery , on February 8th of this year. Sermon on the Mount Ye spirits that hover above, bear witness to my quest and I shall prove as tall a teller of tales as ever stopped a wedding guest. If love sometimes fails, does lust never lie? On manna and honeydew fed, the dreamers moan and sigh. The truth is acted out in bed. Can you divorce the act of love from the fact of death? No, and neither can I, nor tell in what sense the action may differ from the essence. Bitter constraint, in darkness bred, carves out of the marble of lust a nymph obedient, with upraised head, kneeling before him in whom she trusts, in the chapel where her hormones led. new poem by David Lehman

Eyewear is very pleased, and more than a little delighted, to feature a new poem this Friday by David Lehman  ( pictured on the right with Charles Simic),  one of America's major figures in the poetry world - as third wave New York School poet, anthologist, teacher, scholar, critic, and impresario. David Lehman was born in New York City in 1948. He graduated from Columbia University and attended Cambridge University in England as a Kellett Fellow. He also received a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. He is the author of several collections of poems, including  When a Woman Loves a Man  (Scribner, 2005),  Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man  (with James Cummins, Soft Skull Press, 2005),  The Evening Sun  (2002), The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry (2000),  Valentine Place  (1996),  Operation Memory  (1990), and  An Alternative to Speech  (1986). His books of criticism include  The Last Avant-Ga...