The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
$41.57
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
16 October 2008
Summary
“Nabokovian in his caustic charm and sexy intelligence, Simic perceives the mythic in the mundane and pinpoints the perpetual suffering that infuses human life with both agony and bliss… . And he is the master of juxtaposition, lining up the unlikeliest of pairings and contrasts as he explores the nexuses of madness and prophecy, hell and paradise, lust and death.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist”As one reads the pithy, wise, occasionally cranky epigrams and vignettes that fill this volume, there is t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781931337403 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1931337403 |
| Author: | Charles Simic |
| Publisher: | Ausable Press |
| Imprint: | Ausable Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 16 October 2008 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 13mm |
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Critics Review
“Simic’s is a unique and necessary voice in American poetry, one that concisely articulates a profound aversion to simplistic answers and bland comforts.”-Booklist “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.”-Publishers Weekly “Simic’s work, mingling Rimbaud and Socrates, startles us into meditation.”-Library Journal
About The Author
Charles Simic
Born in Yugoslavia in 1938, Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at the University of NH, Charles Simic won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 1996 In 2007 he was appointed Poet Laureate and received the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.
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