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The World Doesn't End: A Poetry Collection Paperback - 1989

by Charles Simic

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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.

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

"One of the truly imaginative writers of our time." --Los Angles Times Book Review

You never know what Charles Simic is up to until you reach the end of the line or the bottom of the paragraph. Waiting for you might be a kiss. Or a bludgeon. A smile at the absurdities of society, or a wistful, grim memory of World War II.

He puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy and streetwise. Or cloak himself in antiquity.

Charles Simic has new eyes, and in these wonderful poems and poems-in-prose he lets us see through them.

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My mother was a braid of black smoke.

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  • Title The World Doesn't End: A Poetry Collection
  • Author Charles Simic
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition later printing
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ecco Press, San Diego, Ca, U.s.a.
  • Publication date 1989-03-14
  • ISBN 9780156983501 / 0156983508
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.4 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 1.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
    • Holiday: Valentine's Day
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Prose poems, American
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 88021128
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 04/01/1997, Page 95
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/03/1989, Page 0

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