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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Death benefits
    sub title: a century of sonnets
  name:
    name part: Slavitt, David R.
    name part: 1935-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: lau
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 100 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Death Benefits deepens and extends David R. Slavitt's sublime, lyric confrontation with mortality and does so in a plainspoken and marvelously entertaining, conversational voice. 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 verbal 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.
  note: David R. Slavitt.
  note: Includes index.
  classification: PS3569.L3 D43 2024
  classification: 811/.54
  identifier: 9780807182550
  identifier: 0807182559
  identifier: 9780807183489
  identifier: 9780807183496
  identifier: 2024010859
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240311
    record change date: 20260422183404.3
    record identifier: in00005508472