In this volume David Slavitt brings together eight poems that deal largely with the mind’s relation to history, personal history, and the history of myth and of empires. In addressing…

A selection of work from thirteen volumes of poetry published across four decades, Change of Address highlights the magnitude and scope of David Slavitt’s poetic achievement. From the beginning of…

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…

Remarks on the life of the poet: how it was - and how it is - to be an American writer in our time. Combining personal reminiscence with literary analysis…

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…

Presents a readable translation of a poem that is crucial to the history of ancient thought. This title offers an elaboration of Greek Epicurean physics and psychology. It argues that…

Originally published in 1961, this novel follows two American men traveling in Europe. Though both have struck out for the same continent, each man’s methods of and motives for travel…

Three mysterious Greenlandic poets are translated for the first time into English by Slavitr, a poet and novelist; and Grnkjaer, a native Greenlander named Greenland’s connection to the Anglophone world…