In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and american present-a world of his own creation, one always full of luminous surprise. "Simic writes so simply that his words fall like drops of[...]

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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A quarter of adolescents engage in some form of self-harm and even experienced therapists can find working with these young people difficult. Based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), a highly effective method for working with emotional problems, Cutting Down offers a practical and accessible prog[...]

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[...]

This is a well-rounded collection of the war's many voices. An essential new resource for students and teachers of the Vietnam War, this concise collection of primary sources opens a valuable window on an extraordinarily complex conflict. The materials gathered here, from both the American and Vietn[...]

Written by Nenad Simic, a successful Serbian coach. This book is aimed at tennis players to carry on to court during matches. It is packed with 303 short and punchy tips for players to read before and during matches, including advice on your Mental Game, Forehand, Volley and Serve. The concept: to r[...]

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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[...]