A Wedding in Hell: Poems - Softcover

Simic, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156001292 ISBN 13: 9780156001298

Publisher: Thomson Learning, 1994

Synopsis

Poems focus on the contradictions of modern life, the impact of television, memories of childhood, and the prevalence of violence.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Four paper dolls hold hands like a family. They are cut from a morning newspaper that runs an ad for "heavenly" coffee next to a picture from a war zone. On television, refugees are crowding a road, while on the pay-per-view channel lovers are trading hungry kisses and tearing off each other's clothes. In his new volume of poems, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic juxtaposes the joys of the everyday - the unabashed pleasure of sex, the beauty of nature - against a haunting landscape of shattered windows, soldiers on the march, stray dogs, homeless men, and a God still making up His mind.

About the Author:

CHARLES SIMIC was born in Belgrade and emigrated to the United States in 1954. He is the author of many books of poetry and prose. Among other honors, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 and served as the Poet Laureate of the United States in 2007-2008.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomson Learning
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0156001292
• ISBN 13: 9780156001298
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 79