{"title":"Charles Simic","description":"Born in Yugoslavia in 1938, Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at the University of NH, Charles Simic won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 1996 In 2007 he was appointed Poet Laureate and received the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.","products":[{"product_id":"the-life-of-images-selected-prose-paperback","title":"The Life of Images: Selected Prose - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Decades after immigrating to the States in 1954, Simic retains an outsider's perspective: inquisitive, incredulous, amazed by the apparently ordinary--all excellent qualities for an essayist. There's ample warmth and charm here.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of new and selected essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to being one of America's most famous and commended poets, Charles Simic is a prolific and talented essayist. The Life of Images brings together his best prose written over twenty-five years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA blend of the thoughtful, comic, and tragic, the essays in \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Images \u003c\/i\u003eexplore subjects ranging from poetry to philosophy, photography, politics, and art, to Simic's childhood in a war-torn country. Culled from five collections, these works demonstrate the qualities that make Simic's poetry so original yet accessible. Whether he is pondering the relationship between history and the individual, or recalling growing up in Belgrade and New York City, Simic shares his distinctive take on the world and offers an intimate look into the life and mind of an immigrant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of new and selected essays by the pulitzer prize winner and former poet laureate charles simic\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to being one of America's most famous and commended poets, Charles Simic is a prolific and talented essayist. \u003cem\u003eThe Life of Images\u003c\/em\u003e brings together his best prose work written over twenty-five years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA blend of the thoughtful, comic, and tragic, the essays in \u003cem\u003eThe Life of Images\u003c\/em\u003e explore subjects ranging from poetry to philosophy, photography, politics, and art, to Simic's childhood in a war-torn country. 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His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and american present-a world of his own creation, one always full of luminous surprise. \"Simic writes so simply that his words fall like drops of water, but they ripple outward to evoke an ominous and numinous world\" (Washington Post Book World).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when the waking world dissolves into dream, and memory becomes a haunting ground?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSurrealism and the Everyday: \u003c\/b\u003e Witness the mundane crack open to reveal the mythic, where a trip to the funeral home or a glance at a red pencil becomes a descent into the uncanny.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEastern European Memory: \u003c\/b\u003e Journey through a rich, haunted landscape where Old World folktales and sorrows bleed into the American present.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Poetry of Insomnia: \u003c\/b\u003e Spend the wee hours in the titular Hotel Insomnia, a world populated by angels and pigs, where sleep never comes but luminous surprises do.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHaunting \u0026amp; Lyrical Verse: \u003c\/b\u003e Experience the simple, masterful lines that earned Charles Simic the Pulitzer Prize, where each word falls like a drop of water into a deep, ominous well.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this new volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning Charles Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. With empty offices and dolls that smile. With the sound of bare feet upstairs and a single kiss before the shadows converge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378262966495,"sku":"9780156421829","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/cTHE8qPb809780156421829.webp?v=1789250894"},{"product_id":"the-monster-loves-his-labyrinth-paperback","title":"The Monster Loves His Labyrinth - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nabokovian in his caustic charm and sexy intelligence, Simic perceives the mythic in the mundane and pinpoints the perpetual suffering that infuses human life with both agony and bliss. . . . And he is the master of juxtaposition, lining up the unlikeliest of pairings and contrasts as he explores the nexuses of madness and prophecy, hell and paradise, lust and death.\"--Donna Seaman, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As one reads the pithy, wise, occasionally cranky epigrams and vignettes that fill this volume, there is the definite sense that we are getting a rare glimpse into several decades worth of private journals--and, by extension are privy to the tickings of an accomplished and introspective literary mind.\"--\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten over many years, this book is a collection of notebook entries by our current Poet Laureate.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcerpts: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStupidity is the secret spice historians have difficulty identifying in this soup we keep slurping.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArs poetica: trying to make your jailers laugh.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican identity is really about having many identities simultaneously. We came to America to escape our old identities, which the multiculturalists now wish to restore to us.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmbiguity is the world's condition. Poetry flirts with ambiguity. As a \"picture of reality\" it is truer than any other. This doesn't mean that you're supposed to write poems no one understands.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe twelve girls in the gospel choir sang as if dogs were biting their asses.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat an outrage! 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He has been awarded nearly every major literary prize for his poetry, including a Pulitzer and a MacArthur grant, in addition to serving as the poet laureate of the United States in 2007 and 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this new volume, he distills his life's work, combining for the first time the best of his early poems with his later works--including nearly three dozen revisions--along with seventeen new, never-before-published poems. Simic's body of work draws inspiration from a range of topics, from the inscrutability of ordinary life to American blues, from folktales to marriage and war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsistently exciting and unexpected, the nearly four hundred poems in this volume represent the best of one of America's most distinguished and original poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378520457439,"sku":"9780063437395","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vt61Tulufo9780063437395.webp?v=1789257962"},{"product_id":"the-voice-at-3-00-a-m-selected-late-and-new-poems-paperback","title":"The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the seemingly mundane minutiae of contemporary American culture, Simic matches meditations on spiritual concerns and the weight of history with a nimble wit, shifting effortlessly to moments of clear vision and intense poetic revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChosen as one of the New York Library's 25 Books to Remember for 2003, The Voice at 3:00 A. M. was also nominated for a National Book Award. The recipient of many prizes, Simic most recently received Canada's Griffin Prize. The poems in this collection--spanning two decades of his work--present a rich and varied survey of a remarkable lyrical journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Street\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeauty, dark goddess, \u003cp\u003eWe met and parted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs though we parted not.\u003cp\u003eLike two stopped watches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a dusty store window, \u003cp\u003eOne golden morning of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis selected volume showcases the prizewinning work of a modern master, where the everyday reveals its startling, secret life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSardonic Humor: \u003c\/b\u003e Simic's signature wit finds the absurdity in everything from soap operas to conversations with the devil, delivered with a wry, knowing smirk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSurreal Imagery: \u003c\/b\u003e Experience a world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, where blind beggars see the truth and stopped watches mark a golden morning of time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePhilosophical Poetry: \u003c\/b\u003e These poems grapple with the big questions--time, memory, God, and nothingness--not in a lecture hall, but in a dusty store window.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Weight of History: \u003c\/b\u003e From the wars of the 20th century to the quiet dread of the present, these verses explore how history lives on in the smallest details of contemporary American life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Charles Simic: \u003cbr\u003e\"Charles 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 \u003cbr\u003e\"Few poets have been as influential--or as inimitable--as Charles Simic.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's hard to see how anyone could not like Charles Simic . . . American poetry would be much more boring without that odd hybrid we know as the Simic Poem.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Charles Simic has infused American poetry with the freshest and most original style and imagery since e.e. cummings.\"--\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A master of the surreal.\"--\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHARLES SIMIC\u003c\/b\u003e is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of our time. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including a PEN International Award for translation, and in 1990 he received the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe World Doesn't End\u003c\/i\u003e. 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