A collection of new and selected essays by the Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureateIn addition to being one of America's most famous and commended poets, Charles Simic is a prolific and talented essayist. The Life of Images brings together his best prose work written over twenty-five years[...]

In his first volume of poetry since his tenure as American poet laureate, Charles Simic shows he is at the height of his poetic powers. These new poems mine the rich strain of inscrutability in ordinary life, until it is hard to know what is innocent and what ominous. There is something about his wo[...]

"Darkness Spoken" gathers together Ingeborg Bachmann's two celebrated books of poetry, as well as early and late poems not collected in book form, over 100 of them appearing in English for the first time, as well as 25 poems never before published in German. Bachmann is considered one of the most im[...]

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In "Dime-Store Alchemy," poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America's great artists. Simic's spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly reno[...]

Die Frage, woraus Dichtung entsteht, beunruhigt den amerikanischen Lyriker Charles Simic. In seinen Essays entdeckt er bei sich selber und einer Reihe großer amerikanischer Vorläufer den Zweifel, die "ungewisse Gewissheit" als poetisches Prinzip. Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, Williams Carlos W[...]

Charles Simic hör sedan åtskilliga år till de mest uppmärksammade poeterna inom den engelskspråkiga världen. Här presenteras han för första gången i bokform på svenska med ett stort urval i översättning av Lasse Söderberg. 1990 belönades Simic med Pulitzer-priset för poesi, men han h[...]