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Lehman, David

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In One Hundred Autobiographies, poet and scholar David Lehman applies the full measure of his intellectual powers to cope with a frightening diagnosis and painful treatment for cancer. No matter how debilitating the medical procedures, Lehman wrote every day during chemotherapy and in the aftermath of radical surgery. With characteristic riffs of wit and imagination, he transmutes the details of his inner life into a prose narrative rich in incident and mental travel. The reader journeys with him from the first dreadful symptoms to the sunny days of recovery.

This "fake memoir," as he refers ironically to it, features one-hundred short vignettes that tell a life story. One Hundred Autobiographies is packed with insights and epiphanies that may prove as indispensable to aspiring writers as Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet.

Set against the backdrop of Manhattan, Lehman summons John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Edward Said, and Lionel Trilling among his mentors. Dostoyevsky shows up, as does Graham Greene. Keith Richards and Patti Hansen put in an appearance, Edith Piaf sings, Clint Eastwood saves the neighborhood, and the Rat Pack comes along for the ride. These and other avatars of popular culture help Lehman to make sense of his own mortality and life story.

One Hundred Autobiographies reveals a stunning portrait of a mind against the ropes, facing its own extinction, surviving and enduring.

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David Lehman is a poet and writer whose many books include New and Selected Poems, The Daily Mirror, and Sinatra's Century. For A Fine Romance, he won ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award. Lehman is the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry and the series editor of The Best American Poetry. He divides his time between Ithaca, New York, and New York City.

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"The microessays in David Lehman's compelling book display a lively mind and livelier imagination in mortal combat with a frightening debilitating illness. That Lehman wins this battle is no surprise; neither is his unconquerable allegiance to the healing power of putting words together."

(Robert Wilson, Editor The American Scholar)

"David Lehman's One Hundred Autobiographies is the tale of his many lives, told with wit, insight, and the gifts of a natural storyteller. While illness forces him to confront his own mortality and to recall the people and events that shaped him, there is no shutting out the banal soundtrack of everyday life. David is an eloquent, playful seeker of the truth who, when that treasure is too well hidden to be found, will settle for a good joke for the time being but never give up the search."

(Robert Siegel, former host of All Things Considered, NPR)

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PublisherCornell University Press
Publication date2019
ISBN 10 1501746456
ISBN 13 9781501746451
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