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.* 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 ...
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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.* 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.
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Small 8vo. Stiff glossy wrappers. 245pp, (7pp). Fine. Pristine, perfect later (third) softbound printing, inscribed and signed huge and bold in black fineline on half-title page: "For Bill: / Charles Simic." Simic (1938-2023) was the Pulitzer Prize-winning Serbian-American poet and recipient "Bill" is Bill Pauly (1942-2021), a poet especially known for haikus and long-time English professor at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. A title rarely found signed.
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