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Title: Selected Early Poems by Charles Simic ISBN: 0-8076-1483-1 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: 11 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great poems, collection a bit lacking
Comment: This book is all right if you're just discovering Simic, but if you're adding it to a collection it's not an essential buy. Despite the dust jacket's promise it doesn't deliver in the way of new or revised material, and the choice of poems mirrors too much the older (and cheaper) compilation, Selected Poems. Most of Simic's books are available and very affordable in paperback, and once you get to know him, you'll want them all. The "greatest hits" package here is optional.
Rating: 5
Summary: An essential volume of poems
Comment: Anyone who is interested in the breadth, playfulness and imagistic intensity of contemporary American poetry needs to buy this book. Simic's early poems--surreal and yet rooted many times in the commonalities of life--are sparse yet full of surprises. These poems, when I was an undergrad, changed the way I THOUGHT about poetry, what it could accomplish. Nearly devoid of literary pretentions, Simic's poetry is nonetheless artful, using slang, riddles and the like to construct his worlds-within-poems. Simic later wrote a book called Dimestore Alchemy on the work of Joseph Cornell and I couldn't think of a better description than 'dimestore alchemy' for his own poetry. Few books are essentials, but this is one of them, a certified desert-island book for poets and lovers of poetry.
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Title: The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems by Charles Simic ISBN: 0151008426 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic ISBN: 0156983508 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 14 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Collected Poems: Edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter; Introduction by Frank Bidart by Robert Lowell, Frank Bidart, David Gewanter ISBN: 0374126178 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: 2004 Poet's Market (Poet's Market, 2004) by Nancy Breen, Vanessa Lyman ISBN: 1582971870 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Walking the Black Cat by Charles Simic ISBN: 015600481X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 17 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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