A Wedding in Hell

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 God still making up his mind. ?Provocative...a tantalizing, beautiful fusion of visions? (Bloomsbury Review).

About the author

Charles Simic was a poet, essayist, and translator who was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1954. He published more than twenty books of poetry, in addition to a memoir and numerous books of translations for which he received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Wallace Stevens Award. In 2007, he served as poet laureate of the United States. He was a distinguished visiting writer at New York University and professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, where he taught since 1973. He died in January 2023 at the age of eighty-four.

Summary

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 God still making up his mind. “Provocative...a tantalizing, beautiful fusion of visions” (Bloomsbury Review).

Product details

• Authors: Charles Simic
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.1994
• EAN: 9780156001298
• ISBN: 978-0-15-600129-8
• No. of pages: 96
• Weight: 4531 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; nonfiction;american;america;poetry;american poetry, POETRY: American / General, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, POETRY: Medieval, POETRY: Epic, POETRY: Caribbean & Latin American, POETRY: American / Asian American, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / General, POETRY: Haiku *