Books : Selected Poems, 1963-1983
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by: Charles Simic
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780807611302
ISBN: 0807611301
Label: george braziller
Manufacturer: george braziller
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1990-04
Publisher: george braziller
Sales Rank: 2273470
Studio: george braziller
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Amazon.com Review:
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, this collection represents what many experts feel is Charles Simic's finest work. This expanded edition contains 33 revisions of many of the original collection's poems. Simic's imagery and meaning rely heavily and beautifully on line breaks and their rhythm. His phrases create their own separate thoughts between line breaks, easing the music of the poem into a slower, contemplative pace despite the topic: 'Because I am the bullet / that has gone through everyone already / I thought of you long before you thought of me' (from 'What the White Had to Say'). Simic lends clarity to that which is otherwise complex.
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Rating: - A bizarre, delightful collection
Simic's best work somehow manages to be both surrealistic and lucid. Expressionistic black & white takes on the Old Country (E. Europe in the years following the second world war) and the New World (the bustling, booming Chicago Simic emigrated to as a teenager). The poems on silverware alone worth the price of the book. Strange and wonderful.
Rating: - elegant poet of the intellect & surreal walks on the earth
Read any book by the touching, spare, philosophical, and simple poet Charles Simic. Read this if you hate poetry. read this if you love poetry. Today most poets are mired in the concrete. Masters of decorative language, they don't seem to have a point. Simic is a must read for poets, and all writers. He mentions his clothes often. This for me represents his respect for the common, the low. yet he tastefully reaches for the ether at the same time. He is one of the best of our century! However ... Read More
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