Summary
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In this latest collection of poems, Charles Simic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, brings us startling new visions of the haunted landscape that has been his oeuvre, where the surreal and the mundane, the sacred and profane, are indistinguishable, a world where "everything is teetering on the edge of everything/With a polite smile". A man waits at a bus stop for the love of his life, a woman (Lady Luck?) he's never met. The world's greatest ventriloquist who sits on a street corner uses passersby as dummies and speaks through us all. Hamlet's ghost walks the hallways of a Vegas motel. Sunlight streams through a windowpane of fire. Mary Magdalene cruises Santa Monica Boulevard. Flies from a slaughterhouse leave bloody tracks across the pages of a book. Jesus panhandles in a weed-infested Eden.
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- Title Walking the Black Cat
- Author Charles Simic
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press, New York
- Date 1996-10-17
- ISBN 9780156004817 / 015600481X
- Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
- Dimensions 8.46 x 5.44 x 0.29 in (21.49 x 13.82 x 0.74 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Caribbean
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96017064
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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Citations
- Booklist, 10/01/1996, Page 317
- Library Journal, 11/01/1996, Page 71
- Publishers Weekly, 09/30/1996, Page 82
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