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A new volume of poems, bringing readers startling visions of the world in which we all live, explores a haunted landscape on the brink in which the mundane and surreal, profane and sacred are indistinguishable.
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In this latest collection of poems, Charles Simic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, brings us startling new visions of the haunted landscape that has been his oeuvre, where the surreal and the mundane, the sacred and profane, are indistinguishable, a world where "everything is teetering on the edge of everything/With a polite smile". A man waits at a bus stop for the love of his life, a woman (Lady Luck?) he's never met. The world's greatest ventriloquist who sits on a street corner uses passersby as dummies and speaks through us all. Hamlet's ghost walks the hallways of a Vegas motel. Sunlight streams through a windowpane of fire. Mary Magdalene cruises Santa Monica Boulevard. Flies from a slaughterhouse leave bloody tracks across the pages of a book. Jesus panhandles in a weed-infested Eden.
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Charles Simic teaches English at the University of New Hampshire.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0151002193
- ISBN 13 9780151002191
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages83
- EditorWillen Drenka
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