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David Lehman (born 1948) is the series editor for The Best American Poetry book series and a poet. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Lehman, David.

"Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side."

Lehman, David on Jargon
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"There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic."

Lehman, David on Literary Criticism
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"Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity -- a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence."

Lehman, David on Obscurity
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"Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used."

Lehman, David on Words
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