Title: Civil Wars : poems /
Authors: Slavitt, David R., 1935-
Year: 2013
Subjects: American poetry
Contents: Machine generated contents note: Part One -- Poems -- Isaac -- Tisiphone -- Intimate -- Tortoise -- Dancing Bear -- Hour Glass -- Comb -- Civil Wars -- Spy -- Tinnitus -- Il Trovatore: The Villanelle -- Sirens -- Ptolemaic Astronomy -- Epitaph for a Headmaster -- Dinner Toast -- The Washing of the Bodies -- Harmonica Rascals -- Escape -- April 20 -- Normandie -- Spinoza -- Osip and Boris -- Conversation with My Father -- Sestina on Six End-Words of Petrarch -- Cat's Eyes -- Underwood -- The Poem -- Recording Angel -- Yankees -- Revision -- Castaways -- All We like Sheep -- Department of Corrections -- Invention -- Waiting for Sleep -- Choice -- Raimon de Roussillon -- Salida de Emergencia -- Conservatory Clerihew -- Part Two -- Renditions -- "The Vine and the Billy Goat," by Leonidas of Tarentum -- "Workmen," anonymous, from the Hebrew -- "Red Lips," anonymous, Greek folk song -- "Lament for Bion," anonymous, from the Greek, c. 100 BCE -- "Provencal Poets," by Denis of Portugal -- "Of the Deceitful Brevity of Life" / Luis de Gongora -- "Give Way to God, or The Dying Christ" / Pierre de Fermat.