The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
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, BooklistAs one reads the pithy, wise, occasionally cranky epigrams and vignettes that fill this volume, there is the definite sense that we are getting a rare glimpse into several decades worth of private journals--and, by extension are privy to the tickings of an a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61932-059-8
- EAN: 9781619320598
- Produktnummer: 22559289
- Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 100 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'600 KB
Über den Autor
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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