Selected Poems 1963 - 2003

Charles Simic

ISBN 10: 0571222722 / ISBN 13: 9780571222728

Published by Faber & Faber 05/08/2004, 2004

About this Item

Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Seller Inventory # 6545-9780571222728

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Poems 1963 - 2003
• Publisher: Faber & Faber 05/08/2004
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571222722
• ISBN 13: 9780571222728
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Serbian by birth, brought up under Nazi occupation and transplanted to America in his teens, Charles Simic has had the opportunity to distill a highly particular vision of the world, in which comic gaiety goes hand in hand with the recognition of our darker spiritual and philosophical problems. Blending the real and the surreal, the urbane and the uncanny, Simic's poems construct a neighbourhood of experience that is estranged yet recognisably at home with its surroundings. He notes what the eye sees and what the subsconscious has to say on the matter, in a poetry which is a triumph of the plain style.

This selection, made by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author himself from forty years of writing, is an outstanding overview of one of the wisest American poets.

'Simic's writing comes dancing out on the balls of its feet, colloquially fit as a fiddle, a sparring partner for the world.' Seamus Heaney

About the Author

Charles Simic was born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and emigrated to the United States in 1954. His first collection was published in 1971, and in the three decades that have followed he has received numerous awards and honours for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN International Award for translation. Since 1973, Simic has taught English at the University of New Hampshire.