Death benefits : a century of sonnets / David R. Slavitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slavitt, David R., 1935-2025, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

100 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Death Benefits deepens and extends David R. Slavitt's sublime, lyric confrontation with mortality-and does so in a plainspoken and marvelously entertaining, conversational voice. His poetry encourages us to recognize our own predicaments, as we see ourselves reflected as fellow sufferers entrapped by daily circumstance. In his new collection, Slavitt presents a sequence of one hundred sonnets, each one loaded with life, observation, and quicksilver wit. Readers will delight in looking on with wonder, at every turn of the page, to see how the poet will pull it off this time; what kind of verbal magic he will use to fend off the mortal pain of getting through each day. His voice plays over the grid of the meter in utterly natural intonations. His music squarely faces the dark, but its enduring note is faith in common sense and the pleasure that poetry provides, rather than cynicism or despair"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Slavitt, David R., 1935- Death benefits

ISBN:

9780807182550

0807182559

OCLC:

1425946944