One Hundred Autobiographies : : A Memoir / / David Lehman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Lehman, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Execution Poem Expert --; 2. Spots of Time --; 3 .Café Loup --; 4. No Big Deal --; 5. Cancer Alley --; 6. The Crisis --; 7. The Aftermath --; 8. The Procedure --; 9. The Protocol --; 10. The Good Kind --; 11. The Diarist --; 12. None But the Strong --; 13. Tropic of Cancer --; 14. Hospitals and Airports --; 15. Back to the Waiting Room --; 16. “Hurry up, please, it’s time” --; 17. Why 1963? --; 18. Good Friday --; 19. Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate! --; 20. The Weekend Before --; 21. “Bladder cancer: Isn’t that what Sinatra died of?” --; 22. In a Technical Sense --; 23. Five O’Clock Rush --; 24. A Heart Event --; 25. Good Show --; 26. Metaport --; 27. If You Were an English Poet --; 28. The Regimen --; 29. A Few Beacons in the Quicksand --; 30. What’s the Story? --; 31. Time Is on My Side --; 32. Rush Job --; 33. Final Call --; 34. And Then You Crash --; 35. Chemo --; 36. Roid Rage --; 37. Under the Garden --; 38. The End --; 39. Falling in Love Again --; 40. Nothingness --; 41. Syllabus --; 42. Commencement Speech --; 43. The Exquisite Corpse --; 44. The Editorial “We” --; 45. Oblivion --; 46. Dostoyevsky --; 47. The Spiritual Connection --; 48. “Myself, When Stoned” --; 49. Bloomsday --; 50. Tom Collins --; 51. The Admissions Officer --; 52. Columbia --; 53. Classic Koch --; 54. The Poem Team --; 55. Shakespeare’s Birthday --; 56. Recovery Room --; 57. The Rebbe --; 58. Life Begins at Forty --; 59. Search for Meaning --; 60. The Old Religion --; 61. The Problem of Evil --; 62. Dean Martin’s Hat --; 63. 740 Francs --; 64. Shalom Aleichem Rides to the Rescue --; 65. The Arrival of the Messiah --; 66. Sabbath Services --; 67. A Complicated Guy --; 68. The Patient Next to You --; 69. Cambridge --; 70. Armistice Day, 1970 --; 71. The Sublime Pain of Being --; 72. The Glass Skeleton --; 73. Why Does the Bridge Not Progress? --; 74. Q & A --; 75. Ludlowville, 1981 --; 76. Bio Note (Alt.) --; 77. Wedding Ceremony --; 78. Moscow, 2007 --; 79. Group Therapy --; 80. Fort Tryon Park --; 81. A Fine Invention --; 82. Identity Theft --; 83. A Routine Visit --; 84. Doctor Jew --; 85. “Except for the cancer . . .” --; 86. The Heart Knows --; 87. A Black Dress --; 88. Heisenberg as Hero --; 89. Cheers! --; 90. Walter Lehmann --; 91. Rowing in Eden --; 92. I Remember Mama --; 93. No Regrets --; 94. If I Could --; 95. The Scar --; 96. The Secret --; 97. Like a Hurricane --; 98. In the Eyes of the Beholder --; 99. Champagne Cocktails --; 100. In the Swim
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501746468; 9783110651980; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610369; 9783110606348
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501746468
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Lehman.

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.