Sixty Poems

Charles Simic

• Publisher: Ecco
• Year: 2008
• ISBN:
  9780547544991
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: American Poetry
• Index: Literature

From the Pulitzer Prize winning poet comes this "nearly perfect collection issued to celebrate his being named poet laureate of the United States" ( The New York Times ). Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his slyly original poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and, not least, his sardonic humor. Gathering much of his material from the seemingly mundane minutiae of American culture, Simic unpacks spiritual concerns and the weight of history with a nimble wit, shifting between moments of clear vision and intense poetic revelation. "It takes just one glimpse of Charles Simic's work to establish that he is a master, ruler of his own eccentric kingdom of jittery syntax and signature insight."— Los Angeles Times "Few poets have been as influential—or as inimitable."— The New York Times Book Review