Jackstraws - Hardcover

Simic, Charles

 
9780151004225: Jackstraws

Synopsis

A new collection of sixty-two poems from one of the most influential and respected of contemporary poets continues his vaunted ability to create startling and effective images and retain his powerfully original voice. By the author of Walking the Black Cat. 15,000 first printing.

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Review

"A master of the surreal, Simic packs his poems full of horror movies, bleak jokes, savage ironies and the things an insomniac notices on the ceiling. . . . A gem."-People
"Charles Simic is a contemporary master of the short lyric [who] makes an art out of clarity of vision."-The American Poet, Spring 1999
"These poems are like self-developing Polaroids, in which a scene, gradually assembling itself out of unexplained images, suddenly clicks into a recognizable whole."-The New York Review of Books

About the Author

CHARLES SIMIC was born in Belgrade andemigrated 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.

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