Selected Early Poems

Simic, Charles

ISBN 10: 0807614831 / ISBN 13: 9780807614839

Editore: George Braziller, 1999

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Very good trade paperback shows shelf wear including wrinkling to wraps, hint of creasing along spine, sticker remnant at top corner of rear wraps, name at top of front endpaper and some other light trace wear. 245 pages. Solid copy of this edition of these early poems from the noted poet. Codice articolo 33224

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Titolo: Selected Early Poems

Casa editrice: George Braziller

Data di pubblicazione: 1999

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: Very good

Edizione: Third.

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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." (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.

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Book by Simic Charles