The Lunatic: Poems – Luminous Poetry on Mortality and Nature from Pulitzer Prize Winner and Former Poet Laureate Charles Simic - Couverture rigide

Simic, Charles

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ISBN 10 : 006236474X ISBN 13 : 9780062364746

Editeur : Ecco, 2015

Synopsis

From Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate Charles Simic comes a dazzling collection of poems as original, meditative, and humorous as the legendary poet himself.

This latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic, one of America’s most celebrated poets, demonstrates his revered signature style—a mix of understated brilliance, wry melancholy, and sardonic wit. These seventy luminous poems range in subject from mortality to personal ads, from the simple wonders of nature to his childhood in war-torn Yugoslavia.

For over fifty years, Simic has delighted readers with his innovative form, quiet humor, and his rare ability to limn our interior life and concisely capture the depth of human emotion. These stunning, succinct poems—most no longer than a page, some no longer than a paragraph—validate and reinforce Simic’s importance and relevance in modern poetry.

The ordinary and the surreal collide in poems that are as startling as they are profound.

• Surrealist Poetry: Find the strange in the everyday, where snowflakes have willpower, insomniacs fight ghosts with swords, and a rat posts a personal ad for a soulmate.
• Dark Humor: A signature blend of wry melancholy and sardonic wit that finds the absurdity in graveyards, firing squads, and the lonely corners of the city.
• Meditative and Observational: Quiet, profound reflections on mortality, memory, and the inner life, captured with the masterful precision of a former Poet Laureate.
• Compact and Powerful Prose Poems: Seventy luminous poems, many no longer than a paragraph, each one a concise and unforgettable glimpse into the human experience.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Winner of the pulitzer prize

Former poet laureate of the united states

This latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic, one of America’s most celebrated poets, demonstrates his signature mix of wry melancholy and sardonic wit—a dazzling collection as original, meditative, and humorous as the poet himself. 

For more than fifty years, Simic has delighted readers with his innovative form, quiet humor, and his rare ability to limn our interior life and concisely capture the depth of human emotion. These stunning, succinct poems validate and reinforce Simic’s importance and relevance in modern poetry.

“ ‘When our souls are happy,’ Charles Simic has written, ‘they talk about food.’ When my soul is happy, often enough, I want to talk about Mr. Simic.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ecco
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 006236474X
• ISBN 13: 9780062364746
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 96
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