Selected Poems
This selected-poems volume gathers Charles Simic's work from the 1950s through the early 2000s and shows a distinctive voice where memory, history, and humor intersect. Its short lines and sharp imagery turn everyday fragments into concentrated thought.
Work Information
Across a long poetic career, a concise and sharply observant voice comes into focus.
A selected-poems volume by the Serbian-American poet Charles Simic. It offers a route through the representative voice of a writer known for concise, image-rich poems across a long career.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Published
- 2004-08-05
- Pages
- 176 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13 x 1.5 x 20 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780571222728
- ISBN-10
- 0571222722
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction
Charles Simic is one of the leading American poets now writing. His first collection, Dismantling the Silence, was published in 1971, and in the three decades that have followed he has received numerous awards and honours for his work. This selection, made by the author himself from forty years' work, is an outstanding overview of an astonishing poet.
Charles Simic was born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and emigrated to the United States in 1954. His first collection was published in 1971, and in the three decades that have followed he has received numerous awards and honours for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN International Award for translation. Since 1973, Simic has taught English at the University of New Hampshire.
Reviews
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I recommend this book. I had not read much of Simic before this book. He writes good poetry.He writes poetry that is not so hard to understand, which can be an advantage,
Related Literary Awards
- Griffin Poetry Prize Edition 5 (2005) ・Winner