About David R. Slavitt: David Rytman Slavitt is a writer, poet, and translator, the author of more than 100 books.
He had not been able to see it in himself, but looking at Hungerford, he was able at least to speculate on the possibility that fear, raw, physical fear, had a kind of gift to give, too. Who but the terrified has heard his own heart pounding, listene...
