Change of address : poems, new and selected / David R. Slavitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slavitt, David R., 1935-2025

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 260 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

Summary:

A selection of recent work as well as the best from thirteen volumes of poetry published across four decades, Change of Address highlights the magnitude and scope of David Slavitt's poetic achievement. Meditating on both the quotidian and the sublime and ranging from brilliant satire to tender elegy, this retrospective collection brings into sharp relief Slavitt's intelligence, strength of voice, and ease in varied poetic forms. A splendid capstone to Slavitt's copious output, Change of Address grants readers access to the extraordinary spectrum of his poetry in a single volume.

Contents:

New Poems

Change of Address 3

Kindertotenleid 7

Dust Mites 9

Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat 10

Intruder 11

Eden 12

Mars 13

Dying Bird 14

Homage to Catatonia 16

Sestina 18

Foliage 20

Death 21

Soul 22

The Traitor Bird 23

Colonial Graveyard 24

Birthday Poem 25

Crazy Delmore 26

from Suits for the Dead (1961)

Warning 31

Balloon 32

from The Carnivore (1965)

Nursery Rhyme 37

Ride the High Country 38

F.A. O. Schwarz 39

Elegy for Walter Stone 40

The Lemmings 44

Grenade Fishing 45

from Day Sailing (1969)

Tableau a la Rousseau 49

Sestina for the Last Week of March 50

from Child's Play (1972)

Child's Play 55

Weeding: Florida, January 57

from Vital Signs (1975)

Foreign Body 61

Conquistador 62

Night Creatures 63

A Lament, for My Wife 64

Cruising 65

Glass Exhibit: Old Sturbridge Village 66

Clam Digging 67

Tough Characters 68

Le Babouinisme 69

Intellectual Women 70

from Rounding the Horn (1978)

Poster 73

In Poland, Pigs 75

The Vandal 76

Lobsters 77

Eczema 78

Going West 79

Glaucus 80

Courtyard 82

Walking the Dog 84

Nudes 85

The Animal Act 87

from Big Nose (1983)

Fairy Tale 91

Big Nose 92

Jacob 100

To His Reader 102

Ramon Fernandez Recollects 106

Agamemnon Speaks 107

Museum Piece 108

Last Days at Delphi 110

Titanic 112

The Elm 113

Ailanthus 114

from The Walls of Thebes (1986)

Bloody Murder 119

The Whippets 121

Tambourine 125

Caution 127

Wilson's Pen 128

The Last Dalmatian 130

Wading 132

Guts 134

Unveiling 135

Old Photo 137

from Equinox (1989)

Henry Taylor Shows Me His Parents' Barn 141

Equinox 143

Solstice 147

Performance 148

Canaletto's Ruin 150

Fizz 153

Satisfaction 154

Lummox 156

Plodders 157

Circus Costumes 158

Used Furniture 162

from Eight Longer Poems (1990)

The Wound 165

Monster Dance 171

History of My Ear 175

from Crossroads (1994)

Ida 181

Crossroads 183

The Penitent Peters 185

Lullaby 187

Poems Written on Hotel Stationery 189

Sentence 191

Tatiana, Older 192

Authority 193

The Gig 194

An Extremely Short History of China 196

Transatlantic Flight 198

Cape Cod Snapshot 199

from PS3569.L3 (1998)

Wonder Rabbi 203

Rudiments 204

Desk Set 206

The Art of Translation 214

The Exigency of Rhyme 215

As If 216

The Emperor's Rejoinder 218

The Second Murderer 219

Tryma 221

Domitian at Ostia 222

from Falling from Silence (2001)

Height 225

The Upas Tree 226

The Weight of the Spirit 228

Privately Owned 230

The Valve 231

Airedales 232

A Zemerl for Rabbi Nachman 233

Angel of Death 237

Culls 245

Two Prophets 251

Cape Cod Beach 255

Moses 256

Repetition 257

Falling from Silence 258

Ink 259

Pen 260.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.

ISBN:

0807130036

0807130044

OCLC:

56793740