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Opus posthumous and other poems / David R. Slavitt.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.L3 O68 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slavitt, David R., 1935- author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 93 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "As he prepares to enter his sixth decade of publishing poetry, David R. Slavitt, whose debut book of verse appeared in 1961, remains a determined wildcatter who ranges as far as he thinks necessary to drill for meaning, wherever and however he can get it. Traversing Africa, India, Israel, and the America in which he finds himself, Slavitt's new collection visits zoos, casinos, baseball fields, and cemeteries searching for clues from which he might learn at least a little. He translates verse from Yiddish and Provencal and offers commentaries on received wisdom, everyday events, and the vagaries of existence. With "Opus Posthumous"-the title is a joke, as he remains very much alive-Slavitt presents an august work possessed of a richness toward which he has worked throughout his long life. By turns wry, erudite, and dyspeptic, this new volume offers ample rewards of his maturity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Pyre
- Morning Fog
- Spaces
- Intermediate English
- -G. Stein
- Groceries
- Opus Posthumous
- Toledo Mud Hens
- Outside
- Cobras
- Staffage
- Stone
- Cohort
- Casino
- Real Estate
- What the Gibbons Sing
- America
- Gorillas
- The Woods
- Mayflies
- Porlock
- Great-Grandson
- Psalm 127
- Frost's "Misgiving"
- Zouaves
- Birthdays
- Anaphora
- FOB
- No Man Is a Hero to His Valet
- Azrael
- Nothing on My Mind
- Mushrooms
- Qui Vive
- Tango
- Arboriculture
- La Vallee d'Obermann
- Eden
- Garbo's Cat
- Paradigms of Verbs
- Comfort for Mourners
- The Gnu
- Old Snapshot
- The Right to Oblivion
- For Janet on Her Birthday
- Answer
- Tornado
- Closed Captions
- The Quest of Sir Mod
- TRANSLATIONS, TRANSFORMATIONS, ADAPTATIONS
- Longing (Leyb Naydus)
- The Whip (Moyshe Leyb Halpern)
- My Body (Rachel Korn)
- Night Guests (Kadya Molodovsky)
- Villanesque (Jacques Grevin)
- Sonnet (Etienne Jodelle)
- A Fountain (Philippe Desportes)
- Two Sonnets (Louise Labe)
- Nightingales (Bernard de Ventadorn)
- Dizain (Maurice Sceve).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Slavitt, David R., 1935- Opus posthumous and other poems
- ISBN:
- 9780807175668
- 0807175668
- OCLC:
- 1235903147
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