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Charles Simic - New and Selected Poems, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

New and Selected Poems

1962–2012

Av Charles Simic

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Beskrivning
“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 TimesFor 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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-10-15
  • Mått: 152 x 226 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 400 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 384
  • Förlag: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • ISBN: 9780063437395
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Charles Simic was a poet, essayist, and translator who was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1954. He published more than twenty books of poetry, in addition to a memoir and numerous books of translations for which he received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Wallace Stevens Award. In 2007, he served as poet laureate of the United States. He was a distinguished visiting writer at New York University and professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, where he taught since 1973. He died in January 2023 at the age of eighty-four.

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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"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

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