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Poems
In his eighteenth collection, Charles Simic, the superb poet of the vaguely ominous sound and the disturbing, potentially significant image, moves clo...
Selected Early Poems
"In the spare, haunting vision of these poems, the familiar takes on a disturbing, often sinister, presence. Life's horrors - violence, hunger, povert...
Whether he draws for inspiration on American blues, Serbian folktales, or Greek myths, Simic's words have a way of their own. Each of these forty-four...
1962-2012
The first ever volume of new and selected poetry from one of our most celebrated and acclaimed poets, Charles Simic....
From Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate Charles Simic comes a dazzling collection of poems as original, meditative, and humorous as the le...
In this new collection of sixty-two poems Charles Simic paints exquisite and shattering word pictures that lend meaning to a chaotic world populated b...
A collection of essays on everything from poetry and art to the fine art of sausage making....
This title examines not only other writers' works with a critical eye, but also breaks boundaries in Simic's exploration of the outer and inner reache...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate, a collection of elegiac, irreverent new poems—an American master at the height of his talent T...
Prose Poems
A Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of prose poems by Charles Simic....
Simic puts chirping birds, sex, and happiness into a world of broken windows, shivering trees, soldiers, lone dogs, the homeless of the city, and a Go...
Selected Prose
A collection of new and selected essays by the Pulitzer Prize–winner and former Poet Laureate. In addition to being one of America’s most famous a...
New Poems
An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Close...
Memoirs
"The pieces in this collection, previously scattered in various books and literary magazines, have been arranged chronologically to create an unusual ...
Here are sixty of Charles Simic's best known poems, collected to celebrate his appointment as the fifteenth Poet Laureate of the United States....
Selected Late and New Poems
Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the...
A NEW YORK REVIEW E-BOOK ORIGINAL As former U.S. poet laureate Charles Simic has said, the secret to our identities lies not in grand events, but in t...
A Poetry Collection
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry “One of the truly imaginative writers of our time.” —Los Angles Times Book Review You never know what Cha...
Essays on Poetry and a Memoir
Included in this collection of essays is an autobiographical sketch of the poet's early years in Yugoslavia during World War II...
In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. His is a rich, haunted world of East European me...
Poems by the Pulitzer prize winner....
Selected Early Poems spans the years 1963-1983 and includes works from Simic’s first twelve collections. United States poet laureate & Pulitzer Priz...
This well-respected interview series welcomes Charles Simic. The University of New Hampshire poet is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive vo...
From one of America's most beloved poets, a piercing new collection reflecting on the characters and encounters that haunt us through this life and in...
“This 20th collection from the former U.S. poet laureate departs only by degrees from his poems of earlier decades—but it could just be his best b...
Loneliness, loss, sadness, and mystery mark this wonderful volume of forty-nine poems by Charles Simic, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry a...
Poems search for the spiritual essence of everyday emotional and physical experiences...
Essays and Memoirs
The poet Charles Simic discusses poetry and life....
Orphan Factory collects writing by Charles Simic, hailed as one of our finest contemporary poets. A native of Yugoslavia who emigrated to America in h...
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet “illuminates the shadow side of life in poems as perfectly formed and directed as the beam of a flashlight” (Boo...
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La più recente opera poetica di Charles Simic, tra i maggiori esponenti della poesia nordamericana di oggi. La sua ispirazione cordialmente spettrale...
Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, judge Charles Simic....
17 European and South American Writers
First published in 1976, this astonishing anthology from two U.S. Poet Laureates, Charles Simic and Mark Strand, compiles a selection of the finest tr...
"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 z...
John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Anthony Hecht, Donald Justice, Charles Simic, W.D. Snodgrass, Richard Wilbur
An exciting new collection of in-depth interviews with seven important American poets. Interviewees include Ashbery. Hall, Hecht. Justice, Simic. Snod...
Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry
Provides a critical and autobiographical context for viewing Simic's poetry...
Poems describe private worlds, fairy tale lands of observation, solitude, and ultimately, death...