Jackstraws: Poems by Charles Simic

Jackstraws: Poems

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Jackstraws: Poems by Charles Simic

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Jackstraws: Poems

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In this new collection of sixty-two poems Charles Simic paints exquisite and shattering word pictures that lend meaning to a chaotic world populated by insects, bridal veils, pallbearers, TV sets, parrots, and a finely detailed dragonfly. Suffused with hope yet unafraid to mock his own credulity, Simic's searing metaphors unite the solemn with the absurd. His raindrops listen to each other fall and collect memories; his wildflowers are drunk with kissing the red-hot breezes; and his God is a Mr. Know-it-all, a wheeler-dealer, a wire-puller. In this latest lyrical gathering, Simic continues to startle his fans with the powerful and surprising images that are his trademark-slangy images of the ethereal, fantastic visions of the everyday, foreign scenes of the all-American-and moments full of humor and full of heartache.
Book Details
Publisher:
Ecco Press
ISBN:
9780156010986
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Charles Simic
Published Date:
2000-04-01
Language:
English
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About Charles Simic

Charles Simic (1938–2023) was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and emigrated to the United States in 1954. He won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The World Doesn't End (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989) and served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2007 to 2008. His later collections include Hotel Insomnia (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992) and The Voice at 3:00 A.M. (Harcourt, 2003). He taught American literature and creative writing for more than three decades at the University of New Hampshire and received a MacArthur Fellowship.

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