New and Selected Poems
1962–2012
Format:Paperback
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Published:15th Oct '24
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“It takes just one glimpse of Charles Simic’s work to establish that he is a master, ruler of his own eccentric kingdom of jittery syntax and signature insight.” -Los Angeles Times
For over fifty years, Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant and innovative poetic imagery, his sardonic wit, and a voice all his own. He has been awarded nearly every major literary prize for his poetry, including a Pulitzer and a MacArthur grant, in addition to serving as the poet laureate of the United States in 2007 and 2008.
In this new volume, he distills his life’s work, combining for the first time the best of his early poems with his later works—including nearly three dozen revisions—along with seventeen new, never-before-published poems. Simic’s body of work draws inspiration from a range of topics, from the inscrutability of ordinary life to American blues, from folktales to marriage and war.
Consistently exciting and unexpected, the nearly four hundred poems in this volume represent the best of one of America’s most distinguished and original poets.
“It takes just one glimpse of Charles Simic’s work to establish that he is a master, ruler of his own eccentric kingdom of jittery syntax and signature insight.” — Los Angeles Times "New and Selected offers readers the chance to experience and reassess one of the more unique voices in contemporary literature. . . Wandering the tangled byways of Simic’s imagination, we discover in our own workaday streets a phantasmagoria of the ordinary. . . Playful, sly and thrilling." — Washington Post
ISBN: 9780063437395
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 411g
384 pages