Bücher von David R. Slavitt

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 he finds himself, as he searches for clues from which he might learn at least a little.

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.

This volume of poetry illustrates a new side of the author of The Carnivore and Suits for the Dead. The wit, the toughness, the shining lyric clarity of the earlier books are still here, but they have been joined by a quiet understanding, a joyfulness, and an acceptance of things as they are that indicates the poet has moved into a new and exciting period.

Directly or obliquely, while reading Gibbon or shopping for toys at F.A.O. Schwarz, Slavitt addresses, invokes, or simply enjoys the civilization that has been the poet's true subject from the time of the wandering bards. Upon the foundation of technical mastery, he has begun to build an oeuvre to assert himself, and, with insouciance and gaiety, to grow into his majority.