Selected Early Poems - Softcover

Simic, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807614831 ISBN 13: 9780807614839

Verlag: George Braziller, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

When this selection of Charles Simic's work first appeared, it was hailed as "easily the best volume of poetry published in 1985....[Simic] is one of the wisest poets of his generation, and one of the best." (The Georgia Review) For this new edition of his selected poems, Simic has added twenty-eight poems and extensively revised others, making this the most complete collection available of his early work. In the spare, haunting vision of these poems, the familiar takes on a disturbing, often sinister, presence. A fork "resembles a bird's foot / Worn around the cannibal's neck" and a bird's chirp is "Like a match flickering / In a new grave." Life's horrors--violence, hunger, poverty, illness--lurk unnervingly in the background. And yet, despite the horror, a sense of wonder pervades these poems, transforming the ordinary world into a mysterious place of unknowable forces. Classic displays of the economy and grace of Simic's work, these poems occupy an established place in American poetry.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: George Braziller
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807614831
• ISBN 13: 9780807614839
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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