(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807182550)
Death Benefits deepens and extends David R. Slavitt’s sublime, lyric confrontation with mortality—and does so in a plainspoken and marvelously entertaining, conversational way. His poetry encourages us to recognize our own predicaments, as we...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Oct-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807175668)
As he enters his sixth decade of publishing poetry, David Slavitt remains a determined wildcatter who ranges as far as he thinks necessary to drill for meaning. In his new collection, Slavitt traverses Africa, India, Israel, and the America in which...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Livingston Press at the University of West Al, ISBN-13: 9781604892314)
Fiction. Jewish Studies. A version of Tolstoys Death of Ivan Ilyich, except that it is contemporary, Jewish, and (therefore?) often funny. Tolstoy wasnt much given to humor, though its a vital part of our visions of ourselves. Vidui...Loe edasi...
Fiction. Jewish Studies. A version of Tolstoys Death of Ivan Ilyich, except that it is contemporary, Jewish, and (therefore?) often funny. Tolstoy wasnt much given to humor, though its a vital part of our visions of ourselves. Vidui is a Hebrew...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2017, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807166376)
An accomplished poet and a keen observer of the human condition, David Slavitt deploys both skills to create the whimsical, insightful, and witty poems of The Octaves. In these graceful but often blunt, slyly humorous eight-line poems, Slavitt...Loe edasi...
Within its 200,000 verse lines in Sanskrit the Mahabharata takes on many roles: epic poem, foundational text of Hinduism, and, more broadly, the engaging story of a dynastic struggle and the passing of an age when man and gods int...Loe edasi...
La Vita Nuova (1292–94) has many aspects. Dante’s libello, or “little book,” is most obviously a book about love. In a sequence of thirty-one poems, the author recounts his love of Beatrice from his first sight of her (when he was nine and...Loe edasi...
Fiction. Jewish Studies. A Jewish young man and a gentile girl fall deeply in love in the fifties but he lacks the character (or else has too much) to contemplate intermarriage. This short, vivid novel describes how, over the years, he comes to reali...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Aug-2014, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299298548)
The Odes of Horace are a treasure of Western civilization, and this new English translation is a lively rendition by one of the prominent poet-translators of our own time, David Slavitt. Charming, shrewd, and intimate, the voice of the ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Feb-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421411361)
There are seven surviving tragedies by Sophocles. Three of them form the Theban Plays, which recount the story of Thebes during and after the reign of Oedipus. Here, David Slavitt translates the remaining tragedies—the other four plays: ...Loe edasi...
There are seven surviving tragedies by Sophocles. Three of them form the Theban Plays, which recount the story of Thebes during and after the reign of Oedipus. Here, David Slavitt translates the remaining tragedies—the other four plays:...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Oct-2013, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807151808)
The bravura of David R. Slavitts first book of poems, published more than fifty years ago, continues to reverberate through his newest collection in a voice matured and roughened by age. Civil Wars encourages contemplation of the world and writing...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2013, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: AU Press, ISBN-13: 9781927356357)
The twelve lays of Marie de France, the earliest known French woman poet, are here presented in sprightly English verse by poet/translator David R. Slavitt. These old Breton folk tales were the raw material for Marie de Frances series of lively...Loe edasi...
