One Hundred Autobiographies , livre ebook

240

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English

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2019

Écrit par
David Lehman

Publié par
Cornell University Press

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2019

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Date de parution

15 octobre 2019

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9781501746468

Langue

English

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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Publié par

Cornell University Press

Date de parution

15 octobre 2019

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781501746468

Langue

English

One Hundred Autobiographies

One HundredAutobiographies A Memoir

David Lehman

Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2019 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Lehman, David, 1948– author. Title: One hundred autobiographies : a memoir / David Lehman. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2019019614 (print) | LCCN 2019020574 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501746475 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501746468 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501746451 | ISBN 9781501746451 (cloth) Subjects: LCSH: Lehman, David, 1948– —Health. | Bladder—Cancer—Patients— Biography. | Poets, American—Biography. Classiﬁcation: LCC RC280.B5 (ebook) | LCC RC280.B5 L45 2019 (print) | DDC 616.99/4620092 [B]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019019614

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Prefacexiii 1 Execution Poem Expert1 2 Spots of Time3 3 Café Loup4 4 No Big Deal6 5 Cancer Alley9 6 The Crisis10 7 The Aftermath12 8 The Procedure13 9 The Protocol14 10 The Good Kind16 11 The Diarist18 12 None But the Strong20 13 Tropic of Cancer22 14 Hospitals and Airports24 15 Back to the Waiting Room26

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16 “Hurry up, please, it’s time”28 17 Why 1963?29 18 Good Friday33 19Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate!35 20 The Weekend Before37 21 “Bladder cancer: Isn’t that what Sinatra died of?” 22 In a Technical Sense41 23 Five O’Clock Rush42 24 A Heart Event44 25 Good Show46 26 Metaport47 27 If You Were an English Poet49 28 The Regimen51 29 A Few Beacons in the Quicksand53 30 What’s the Story?57 31 Time Is on My Side59 32 Rush Job63 33 Final Call64 34 And Then You Crash66 35 Chemo68 36 Roid Rage72 37 Under the Garden74 38 The End77 39 Falling in Love Again78

40 Nothingness80 41 Syllabus81 42 Commencement Speech84 43 The Exquisite Corpse86 44 The Editorial “We”87 45 Oblivion89 46 Dostoyevsky91 47 The Spiritual Connection93 48 “Myself, When Stoned”95 49 Bloomsday98 50 Tom Collins100 51 The Admissions Ofﬁcer102 52 Columbia107 53 Classic Koch111 54 The Poem Team116 55 Shakespeare’s Birthday118 56 Recovery Room121 57 The Rebbe123 58 Life Begins at Forty127 59 Search for Meaning131 60 The Old Religion133 61 The Problem of Evil136 62 Dean Martin’s Hat137 63 740 Francs139

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