The Phoenix
And Other Translations
by David Slavitt
New American Press
Poetry
28pg, $9ISBN 0-9729679-2-3
David Slavitt is the author or translator of over 75 books of fiction, verse, drama, and essays. His novels include Lives of the Saints, Cold Comfort, Turkish Delights, and Aspects of the Novel. Recent collections of verse include Falling From Silence and New and Selected Poems (both available from LSU Press). Slavitt’s work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Poetry, Texas Review, Boulevard, and Best American Poetry.
PRAISE FOR SLAVITT’S PREVIOUS WORKS
“An act of translation as original, as audacious, and as important as any that our age can offer. Slavitt stands among the few who have expanded the possibilities for poetic translation in our time.”
—Charles Martin, translator of The Poems of Catullus“Slavitt is certainly a classicist, but…he is deeply involved in the immediate, physical, blow-by-blow world, and the tension of his personae in somehow uniting these apparently polarized aspects of the self makes for exciting poetry. He is his own man, his own poet.”
—Joyce Carol Oates“The Hussar stands to the contemporary novel rather in the way that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead stands to the theater: a witty and elegant (and erotic) notion that, startlingly, comes alive in a prose that gives delight.”
—Gore Vidal