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1	Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist Brilliantly exploring the life and work of American artist Joseph Cornell, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Simic utilizes a series of short prose pieces that scavenge the dark corners of New York City by way of the nooks and crannies of his own imagination, creating the literary equivalent of Cornell's art. Photos. see all copies from $4.40! new only from $11.34! \| first editions \| SVS
2	That Little Something more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist In his eighteenth collection, Charles Simic, the superb poet of the vaguely ominous sound and the disturbing, potentially significant image, moves closer to the dark heart of history and human behavior. Simic understands the strange interplay between ordinary life and extremes, between reality and imagination, and he writes with absolute purity ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The World Doesn't End more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist In this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy and streetwise. Or cloak himself in antiquity. Simic has new eyes, and in these wonderful poems and poems-in-prose he lets the reader see through them. see all copies from $2.29! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| SVS
4	Saul Steinberg: Illuminations more books like this by Joel Smith, Charles Simic (Introduction by) add to wishlist Best known for his barbed and brilliant art for the New Yorker, Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) did much more. He executed public murals, designed fabrics and stage sets, was an inventive collagist and printmaker, and turned his magic touch to the fields of painting, sculpture, advertising, and even wartime propaganda. This is the first comprehensive ... see all copies from $28.00! new only from $42.44! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Walking the Black Cat more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist Charles Simic's sixth volume of poems explores, as all his work does, a surreal and haunted landscape. Nominated for the 1996 National Book Award. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Sixty Poems more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist To celebrate Simics appointment as the15th Poet Laureate of the United States, 60 of his best-known poems are collected in this work. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
7	The Best American Poetry 1992 more books like this by Charles Simic (Editor), David Lehman (Editor) add to wishlist The fifth volume of the series Booklist calls" a diverse, highly crafted, and always readable collection" features 75 poets, young new voices as well as established talents. Includes a foreword by Lehman, an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Simic, and notes by the poets commenting on their works. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.01! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Another Republic by Strand Simic, Charles Simic (Editor), Mark Strand (Editor) add to wishlist First published in 1976, this astonishing anthology from two U.S. Poet Laureates, Charles Simic and Mark Strand, compiles a selection of the finest translated literature of the time, showcasing the then-little-known writers who had a profound influence on the current generation of poets. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99!
9	The Gunter Grass Reader more books like this by Gunter Grass, Helmut Frielinghaus (Editor), Charles Simic (Translator) add to wishlist Selected from the vast range of his work, these writings trace Grass's development as a writer, and with it the history of a nation coming to terms with its past. Includes excerpts from such major novels as "The Tin Drum," numerous short fictions, essays, and poems. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Jackstraws: Poems more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist Sixty-two poems by the neo-surrealist poet, who is increasingly considered one of America's best. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late & New Poems more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the seemingly mundane minutiae of contemporary American culture, Simic matches meditations ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Unending Blues: Poems more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist Simic draws on legends of the American blues tradition and Serbian folklore to present 44 poems that, while firmly grounded in the material world, reach metaphysical heights. see all copies from $4.15! new only from $6.46! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss more books like this by Andre Aciman (Editor) add to wishlist Five writers who live in the U.S. but were born elsewhere give their views on being an exile: André Aciman, Eva Hoffman, Bharati Mukherjee, Edward Said, and Charles Simic. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.69! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Book of Gods and Devils more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist Loneliness, loss, sadness, and mystery mark this wonderful volume of forty-nine poems by Charles Simic, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and praised as "one of the truly imaginative writers of our time" by the Los Angeles Times. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist Provides glimpses into the origins of Charles Simic's poetry see all copies from $4.91! new only from $11.37! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Wonderful Words, Silent Truth: Essays on Poetry and a Memoir more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist Included in this collection of essays is an autobiographical sketch of the poet's early years in Yugoslavia during World War II see all copies from $4.08! new only from $12.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	A Wedding in Hell: Poems more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist Poems focus on the contradictions of modern life, the impact of television, memories of childhood, and the prevalence of violence. see all copies from $3.19! new only from $7.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Feast more books like this by Tomaz Salamun, Charles Simic (Editor), W Martin Levin (Translator) add to wishlist This selected work, Salamun's third volume to be translated into English, draws from this Slovenian poet's earlier books and also presents new poems. Here, surreal juxtapositions and whimsy are deepened by the philosophical content. see all copies from $5.23! new only from $26.92! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	My Noiseless Entourage more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist This new collection of poems from Charles Simic demonstrates once again his wit, moral acuity, and brilliant use of imagery. His settings are a farmhouse porch, a used-clothing store, empty station platforms; his subjects love, futility, and the sense of an individual life lived among a crowd of literal and imaginary presences. Both sharp and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Hotel Insomnia more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist In this new volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning Charles Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. With empty offices and dolls that smile. With the sound of bare feet upstairs and a single kiss before the shadows converge. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and American present. It is a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets more books like this by Brett Fletcher Lauer (Editor), Aimee Kelley (Editor), Charles Simic (Introduction by) add to wishlist Written by 100 American poets, "Isn't It Romantic" offers an engaging look at how contemporary poets respond afresh to the well-trammeled territory of the love poem. Award-winning poets from across the country lend their voices to this important document of contemporary poetry. The book also features a bonus full-length audio CD of love songs by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.14! \| SVS
22 view cover	Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist These essays and memoirs bring an ironic Eastern European sensibility to the American scene; Simik also writes vividly and insightfully about his émigré experience. Nominated for the 1998 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. see all copies from $2.81! new only from $11.91! \| signed copies \| SVS
23 view cover	Memory Piano more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist "Memory Piano" is another in the "Poets on Poetry" series from the brilliant and prolific Charles Simic. In all of his books, Simic examines not only other writers' works with an engaging and critical eye; he also breaks new boundaries in his exploration of the outer and inner reaches of the human condition. Included here are penetrating essays on ... see all copies from $4.23! new only from $16.59! \| SVS
24 view cover	New British Poetry more books like this by Don Paterson (Introduction by), Charles Simic (Editor) add to wishlist The only definitive anthology of contemporary British poetry available in the United States, " New British Poetry" presents the exciting work of thirty-five poets from England, Scotland, and Wales. In compiling this landmark anthology, T. S. Eliot Prize-winning Scottish poet Don Paterson and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic followed two ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $8.45! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs more books like this by Charles Simic add to wishlist This memoir, a collage of meditations by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic, is arranged chronologically as it traces his life as an exile and emigrant. Born in Yugoslavia in 1938, Simic as a child was witness to many of the century's atrocities. Here he shares his somber impressions of his childhood imprisonment, the repeated bombing ... see all copies from $6.32! new only from $13.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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