David Lehman
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David Lehman (born 1948) is the series editor for The Best American Poetry book series and a poet.
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[edit] Life
"Lehman was born in New York City in 1948. He graduated from Columbia University and attended Cambridge University in England as a Kellett Fellow. In January 1996, David Lehman began writing a poem nearly every day. During his longest streak, Mr. Lehman wrote a poem on 140 consecutive days" (http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/40).
[edit] Career
"Lehman has written six collections of poems: When a Woman Loves a Man (2005), The Evening Sun (Scribner, 2002), The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry (2000), Valentine Place (1996), Operation Memory (1990), and An Alternative to Speech (1986). In addition, he collaborated with James Cummins to produce a book of sestinas entitled Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man (2005). His books of criticism include The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets (Doubleday, 1998), which was named a "Book to Remember 1999" by the New York Public Library; The Big Question (1995); The Line Forms Here (1992); and Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man (1991). 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 (Scribner), which he initiated in 1988, and is general editor of the University of Michigan Press's Poets on Poetry Series. His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award. He is on the core faculty of the graduate writing programs at Bennington College and the New School for Social Research and teaches a freshman honors class at New York University and divides his time between Ithaca, New York, and New York City" (again, http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/40).
[edit] Bibliography
- Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man (Soft Skull Press, 2005) with James Cummins
- When a Woman Loves a Man (Scribner, 2005)
- The Evening Sun (Scribner, 2002)
- The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry (2000)
- Valentine Place (1996)
- Operation Memory (1990)
- An Alternative to Speech (1986)
