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The prodigiously imaginative mind and penetrating wit of David R. Slavitt are on full display in his newest collection of poetry that is perhaps his most engaging to date. The title poem begins by fooling around-- "With three names like that, it sounds as though his mother is calling him and she's r... Read More about William Henry Harrison and Other Poems

Praise for David R. Slavitt "Slavitt's touch is light, and he writes beautifully.... His satire is sharp, and he can be wildly funny."--New York Times Book Review "One of America's most lucid and classical poets.... Slavitt's attitude is, as one would expect of a Hebrew as well as Greco-Latin cla... Read More about Civil Wars (Sea Cliff Fund)

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 notes the passing of decades and the loss that entails, ... Read More about The Octaves: Poems

As he enters his sixth decade of publishing poetry, David R. Slavitt remains a determined wildcatter who ranges as far as he thinks necessary to drill for meaning, wherever and however he can get it. In his new collection, Slavitt traverses Africa, India, Israel, and the America in which he finds hi... Read More about Opus Posthumous and Other Poems

Ausonius, the most famous of the learned poets active in the second half of the fourth century, was born at Bordeaux and taught school there for 30 years before being summoned to court to teach the future emperor Gratian. He subsequently held important public offices, returning to Bordeaux and priva... Read More about Ausonius: Three Amusements