Andre Aciman, Editor, Edward W. Said, Author, Charles Simic, Author New Press $18.95 (135p) ISBN 978-1-56584-504-6
The five distinguished contributors to this volume agree that a homeland tends to be a nostalgic, imaginary place, not a real one, and that the home once lost can never be recovered. They also share a penchant for classifying the minute differences...
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Charles Simic, Author University of Michigan Press $57.5 (144p) ISBN 978-0-472-09569-8
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Simic's 18 collected pieces, published between 1990 and 1993, might well be called a parade of memory. In these journals, notebooks, introductions, memoirs, and occasional pieces, Simic recalls the sights, sounds and...
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Charles Simic. Ecco, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-236471-5
This essay collection may seem somewhat redundant, since its selections can be readily found in other books (except for five previously uncollected pieces), but it leaves no doubt that former poet laureate Simic wields a powerful pen. In artful,...
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Charles Simic. Ecco, $22.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-236474-6
The prolific Simic (New and Selected Poems: 1962–2012), former U.S. Poet Laureate and 1990 Pulitzer Prize–winner, graces readers with 70 grimly playful poems that confirm his position among the literary elite. The collection primarily revolves...
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Charles Simic. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-547-92828-9
Simic is one of America’s preeminent poets as well as a major figure on the world literary scene. Born in Belgrade and resident in the U.S. since his teenage years, Simic’s sensibility was shaped by his earliest war-ravaged memories and a Kafkaesque
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Charles Simic, Author University of Michigan Press $39.5 (128p) ISBN 978-0-472-09663-3
In Simic's writing, one always hears the accent, the indelible mark of his native Serbian tongue. The accent, which in his poetry conjures the surreal qualities of a heightened attention to language, lends to his prose a tone of curiosity and wonder-
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Charles Simic, Author Ecco $19.95 (77p) ISBN 978-0-88001-303-1
It's hard to do justice to the charm and power of Joseph Cornell's boxes. His reliance on collage, indifference to technical display, and Surrealist mining of private obsession make him very much a modern artist, yet his work also brings to mind...
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Charles Simic, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (79p) ISBN 978-0-15-100123-1
The world according to Simic (Hotel Insomnia) has never been an especially nice place, and his new collection of poems registers no signs of improvement. Urban decay, war and the depravities of false priests and corrupt rulers provide the occasions...
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Charles Simic, Author Mariner Books $14 (96p) ISBN 978-0-15-600481-7
Simic's short, taut lines carve dark-edged images reminiscent of old folk tales. In this new collection, his 13th (The World Doesn't End earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990), he focuses on such folklore elements as chance, luck, faith...
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Charles Simic, Author . Harcourt $23 (96p) ISBN 978-0-15-100630-4
Simic's accomplishments as an American poet have deep roots in his wartime-Serbia childhood: his sly, uncanny arrangements of household words in short poems—some comic, others genuinely scary—convey a sense of menace everywhere,...
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Charles Simic, Author Mariner Books $13 (88p) ISBN 978-0-15-698350-1
A master of the absurd and the unexpected, Simic ( Unending Blues ) presents a collection of prose poems that will not fail to amuse and delight. Writing in a series of ``short-take'' lyrical sentences, he builds observation upon observation to...
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Charles Simic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22 (96p) ISBN 978-0-547-39709-2
This 20th collection from the former U.S. poet laureate (My Noiseless Entourage) departs only by degrees from his poems of earlier decades—but it could just be his best book. Like most of Simic's work, these new poems end up short and sad, setting...
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Charles Simic, Author . Graywolf $18 (272p) ISBN 978-1-55597-557-9
Dyed with pessimism, touched by modernism, and bloodied by recent history, Serbian poetry has flourished, especially over the past 40 years. Simic, a former U.S. poet laureate, grew up in Serbia, and this collection of his translations shows both...
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Charles Simic, Author . Braziller $19.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1594-2
U.S. poet laureate Simic casts his knowing eye over a range of subjects in 16 biographical/critical pieces, many originally published in the New York Review of Books
and other journals. In the opening, autobiographical piece, Simic, born in 1938,...
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Charles Simic, Author . Ausable $14 (115p) ISBN 978-1-931337-40-3
The current U. S. poet laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner, Simic is famous for his short, cryptic poems that draw on his eventful early life, which he describes in dramatic detail here, in notebooks he has kept for decades but never published in...
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Charles Simic, Author . Harcourt $23 (73p) ISBN 978-0-15-101359-3
In his 18th collection, Poet Laureate Simic’s neat stanzas continue to deliver odd moments and unexplained memories, by turns surreal, horrifying, funny, sad, and spoken with this Pulitzer Prize winner’s trademark friendly bemusement....
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Charles Simic, Author . Univ. of Michigan $22.95 (237p) ISBN 978-0-472-06940-8
Though "memory piano" sounds like a phrase from Simic's own poetry, it comes from the title of one of the essay-reviews from the New York Review of Books
that form the bulk of this collection of mainly critical pieces on poetry in both...
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Charles Simic, Author . Harcourt $22 (64p) ISBN 978-0-15-101214-5
Over the past three decades, Simic's compact, often spooky poems of displacement, violence and anxiety have won him national acclaim (and a Pulitzer); for some readers, Simic's frightened children, intrepid shopkeepers and bleak fairy-tale...
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Charles Simic, Author . Harcourt $25 (192p) ISBN 978-0-15-100842-1
With his 1989 collection The World Doesn't End
a Pulitzer winner, and 1996's Walking the Black Cat
an NBA finalist, Simic has achieved major recognition for his wryly acerbic meditations and send-ups; this selection from his last eight...
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Charles Simic, Author, Simic, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $28 (96p) ISBN 978-0-15-100422-5
By now, Simic's matter-of-fact tossings off of the gothic, the banal and the absurd are so familiar that it's hard to know when he's putting us on. In this 13th collection, less allusive and lighter in tone than the Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking...
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Charles Simic. Ecco, $22 (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-266117-3
In his latest exemplary collection, Simic (The Lunatic), one of American poetry’s most revered and acclaimed figures, reveals a mysterious world that is simultaneously sinister and whimsical, observable through the minute details trailing in the...
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Charles Simic. HarperCollins, $24.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-290846-9
Pulitzer-winner Simic (The Lunatic) has mastered a deceptively simple and straightforward lyric style that has served him well over two dozen books of poetry. His latest is no different in this regard, noting (and plucking) “the cunning threads/ By...
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