|
by: Charles Simic
Amazon.com's Price: $13.00 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780156421829
ISBN: 0156421828
Label: Harvest Books
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: November 11, 1992
Publisher: Harvest Books
Sales Rank: 282282
Studio: Harvest Books
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and american present-a world of his own creation, one always full of luminous surprise. “Simic writes so simply that his words fall like drops of water, but they ripple outward to evoke an ominous and numinous world” (Washington Post Book World).
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - The devil's own snack food.
Charles Simic, Hotel Insomnia (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992)
If I ever meet Charles Simic, I am likely to ask that one question every author really hates: "Where do you get your ideas?"
It's not that the overarching, grand design of Simic's work is incomprehensible or anything. In fact, in Hotel Insomnia, if anything, it's more noticeable than ever; for once, the book's title really does tie into almost everything in the book. Insomnia is a major theme in these poems, ... Read More
Rating: - He is a wonderful Poet
I first read poetry of Charles Simic in the New Yorker. He is a great poet and evokes moods with very well-turned phrases and perfectly chosen words. I loved this book and admire this poet to an extent that cannot be put into words.
|
