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The world doesn't end : prose poems / Charles Simic

By:

Simic, Charles, , 1938-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , c1989.Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 74 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780156983501

Subject(s):

Prose poetry, American

DDC classification:

811 SIM

LOC classification:

PS3569.I4725 W67 1989

Awards:

Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize

Summary: These 67 prose poems could be from Hamlet's writing tablet: investigating madness, they search for truth. Poet, translator, winner of a MacArthur Fellowship, Simic tries to make sense of a world that like "the old river . . . in its confusion sometimes forgets and flows backwards.'' Ancestors undergo mysterious "dark and evil days'' (a man exchanges clothes with a dog, heaven is full of "little shrunken deaf ears instead of stars'') that test their sanity. From the best of these sophisticated fables of trial by ordeal, wry intensity flashes. On "the verge of understanding,'' "in a forest of question marks,'' Simic's work, mingling Rimbaud and Socrates, startles us into meditation.

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These 67 prose poems could be from Hamlet's writing tablet: investigating madness, they search for truth. Poet, translator, winner of a MacArthur Fellowship, Simic tries to make sense of a world that like "the old river . . . in its confusion sometimes forgets and flows backwards.'' Ancestors undergo mysterious "dark and evil days'' (a man exchanges clothes with a dog, heaven is full of "little shrunken deaf ears instead of stars'') that test their sanity. From the best of these sophisticated fables of trial by ordeal, wry intensity flashes. On "the verge of understanding,'' "in a forest of question marks,'' Simic's work, mingling Rimbaud and Socrates, startles us into meditation.

Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize

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