Operation Memory

by David Lehman

Book Overview

Reviewers responded enthusiastically to An Alternative to Speech, David Lehman's first collection of poems, three years ago. John Ash, writing in The New York Times Book Review, praised Lehman's poetry as "elegant, exuberant, witty, lyrical and technically sophisticated." Mark Ford in The Times Literary Supplement called the poet's effects "irresistible." Lehman's new book is of equal or even surpassing excellence--notable for its wide range of subjects,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691068488
• ISBN13: 9780691068480
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Cutting edge verse

This is a dynamite book of poems. My candidate for the most underrated volume of its decade! Favorite poems: "Perfidia," the hilarious anti-tenure tirade "With Tenure," the equally hilarious parody of academic lit crit ("One Size Fits All"), the amazing sequence of "Mythologies," the narrative poems set in the 1970s, etc etc etc. This book rewards multiple readings.