(ed note: Today is David Lehman’s birthday and this poem, which came in “over the transom,” seems just right! Thank you Ken Lauter. sdl)
The Trouble with David Lehman Is
that he’s like a huge hurricane spun up
in the Atlantic Ocean of Erudition
or he’s just a fucking non-stop reader
who blows in on our Coast of Lethargy
with a new introduction to a new BAP
that shreds our sheds of poetic assumptions
and prejudices and leaves us gasping for
poems, poems, and more poems which
Mr. Lehman, thank god, promptly delivers.
— Ken Lauter
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Author: The Best American Poetry
