[PDF] Opus Posthumous And Other Poems eBook

Author : David R. Slavitt
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0807176427

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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 himself, complete with visits to zoos, casinos, baseball fields, and cemeteries, as he searches for clues from which he might learn at least a little. He translates verse from Yiddish and Provençal and offers commentaries on received wisdom, everyday events, and the vagaries of existence. With Opus Posthumous and Other Poems—the title is a joke, as he remains very much alive—Slavitt presents an august work possessed of a richness toward which he has worked throughout his long life. By turns wry, erudite, and dyspeptic, this new volume offers ample rewards of his maturity.

Author : David R. Slavitt
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807176435

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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 himself, complete with visits to zoos, casinos, baseball fields, and cemeteries, as he searches for clues from which he might learn at least a little. He translates verse from Yiddish and Provençal and offers commentaries on received wisdom, everyday events, and the vagaries of existence. With Opus Posthumous and Other Poems—the title is a joke, as he remains very much alive—Slavitt presents an august work possessed of a richness toward which he has worked throughout his long life. By turns wry, erudite, and dyspeptic, this new volume offers ample rewards of his maturity.

Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0307791866

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When Opus Posthumous first appeared in 1957, it was an appropriate capstone to the career of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. It included many poems missing from Stevens's Collected Poems, along with Stevens's characteristically inventive prose and pieces for the theater. Now Milton J. Bates, the author of the acclaimed Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self, has edited and revised Opus Posthumous to correct the previous edition's errors and to incorporate material that has come to light since original publication. A third of the poems and essays in this edition are new to the volume. The resulting book is an invaluable literary document whose language and insights are fresh, startling, and eloquent.

Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 1990-02-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0679725342

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When Opus Posthumous first appeared in 1957, it was an appropriate capstone to the career of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. It included many poems missing from Stevens's Collected Poems, along with Stevens's characteristically inventive prose and pieces for the theater. Now Milton J. Bates, the author of the acclaimed Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self, has edited and revised Opus Posthumous to correct the previous edition's errors and to incorporate material that has come to light since original publication. A third of the poems and essays in this edition are new to the volume. The resulting book is an invaluable literary document whose language and insights are fresh, startling, and eloquent.

Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release : 1990
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9780571151417

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First published in 1957, this is a revised, enlarged and corrected edition of Opus Posthumous, out of print since 1972. The book is the complement to his magnificent Collected Poems and the essays and lectures in The Necessary Angel. A miscellany of uncollected writings are brought together - poems, plays, adagia (or aphorisms) and literary texts of various kinds. The book is an important part of the Stevens canon.