Description: 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 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 and what kind of linguistic 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.
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Book Title: Death Benefits : a Century of Sonnets
Number of Pages: 114 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: LSU Press
Item Height: 0.3 in
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, American / General, Topic / Language
Publication Year: 2024
Genre: Poetry, Humor
Item Weight: 6.4 Oz
Author: David R. Slavitt
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
