Unending Blues Poems

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 poems is a powerful mixture of concrete images. Each records the reality and myth of the world around us-and in us. "Short, perfectly shaped, Simic's poems float past like feathers, turning one way, then another" (Village Voice).

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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 poems is a powerful mixture of concrete images. Each records the reality and myth of the world around us-and in us. "Short, perfectly shaped, Simic's poems float past like feathers, turning one way, then another" (Village Voice).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Simic, Charles Simic
• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 21.11.1986
• Categoria: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica
• EAN: 9780156928311
• ISBN: 978-0-15-692831-1
• Numero di pagine: 64
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.4 x 21.6 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 4’531 g
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