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by: Charles Simic
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780156004817
ISBN: 015600481X
Label: Harvest Books
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: October 17, 1996
Publisher: Harvest Books
Sales Rank: 128617
Studio: Harvest Books
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Hamlet’s ghost wandering the halls of a Vegas motel, a street corner ventriloquist using passersby as dummies, and Jesus panhandling in a weed-infested Eden are just a few of the startling conceits Simic unleashes in this collection. “Few contemporary poets have been as influential-or inimitable-as Charles Simic” (New York Times Book Review).
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Rating:  - One of the best poets alive
Charles Simic's "Walking The Black Cat" is hard evidence that the sarcastic, irreverent and consciousness bending spirit of surrealism is alive and well. Simic's tone is flippant and unmistakably poetic; he can take the most ordinary situation and make a slick, subtle metaphysical comment about it ("On the Sagging Porch" is one of the best examples of this, as he takes a local president of the SPCA in a few beautiful stanzas makes Judas out of him). In fact he seems to have a better grasp of what ... Read More
Rating:  - Gorgeous.
Charles Simic, Walking the Black Cat (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1996)
Pulitzer Prizewinning author Charles Simic is to dada what Clayton Eshleman is to surrealism; he's pretty much the sole light keeping it alive in the world of poetry in the present day. Simic, a hardcore imagist, is wonderfully precise in his use of concrete detail, which he then pulls completely out of the realm of reality by juxtaposing things which have no business being next to one another. Walking the Black Cat, a ... Read More
Rating: - Contemporary, Thoughtful, Disturbing, and Refreshing
Blue collar poetry. Subtle and haunting, Charles Simic sets out, one rainy, Sunday afternoon, to take the innards out of life, and play with them as a child would play with an Erector Set. Very satisfying and original
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