The Book of Gods and Devils: Poems of Loneliness and Loss by Pulitzer Prize Winner Charles Simic - Softcover

Simic, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156135469 ISBN 13: 9780156135467

Verlag: Mariner Books, 1990

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Loneliness, loss, sadness, and mystery mark this wonderful volume of forty-nine poems by Charles Simic, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and praised as “one of the truly imaginative writers of our time” by the Los Angeles Times.

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Charles Simic was a poet, essayist, and translator who was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1954. He published more than twenty books of poetry, in addition to a memoir and numerous books of translations for which he received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Wallace Stevens Award. In 2007, he served as poet laureate of the United States. He was a distinguished visiting writer at New York University and professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, where he taught since 1973. He died in January 2023 at the age of eighty-four.

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• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0156135469
• ISBN 13: 9780156135467
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80
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