The World Doesn't End

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Description: Amazon.com Review Yugoslavian-born Charles Simic, who came to the U.S. in 1954, is known as a creator of poetic fantasy. In this volume, he constructs bizarre, startling and entertaining visions in short descriptive sentences that pile one incongruous turn upon another, building images that are fresh and full of surprise. Like the river in one poem which flows backward, the power of Simic's inner world derives from turning logic on its head and taking a look from another direction. This collection was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1990. ... (more)

Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Release date: 14 March 1989
ISBN-10 : 0156983508 | ISBN-13: 9780156983501

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