Civil Wars: Poems

Award, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

Winner of the L. E. Phillabaum Poetry award for 2013 This page intentionally left blank Published by Louisiana State University Press Copyright © 2013 by David R. Slavitt All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America LSU Paperback Edition, 2013 First printing Designer: Barbara Neely Bourgoyne Typefaces: Univers, display; Ingeborg, text Printer and binder: IBT Global Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Slavitt, David R., 1935– [Poems. Selections] Civil Wars : poems / David R. Slavitt. — LSU Paperback edition. pages cm ISBN 978-0-8071-5180-8 (paper : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8071-5181-5 (pdf) — ISBN 978-0-8071-5182-2 (epub) — ISBN 978-0-8071-5183-9 (mobi) I. Title. PS3569.L3C58 2014 811'.54—dc23 2012048400 The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. ♾ Some of these poems have appeared in Boulevard, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, The New England Review, Light, Pequod, and Per Contra. The translation of Pierre de Fermat’s “Give Way to God, or the Dying Christ” was first published by Springer Science + Business Media B.V. in The Mathematical Intelligencer 34, no. 2 (2012): 3–5.The translation from Old English of “The Battle of Maldon” was published in The Word Exchange, W. W. Norton & Co., 2011. for Janet This page intentionally left blank ...