ISBN: 0-8076-1130-1
Godina izdanja: 1985
Autor: Domaći
Jezik: Srpski

Prvo izdanje
Izdavač: George Braziller, New York
Povez: broširan
Broj strana: 186
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Charles Simic`s Selected Poems 1963-1983 is critically acclaimed, recognized as a pivotal collection showcasing his unique surreal, darkly humorous, and myth-infused style that elevates the ordinary into the profound, earning praise for its clarity, imaginative power, and distinctive voice stemming from his experiences as an immigrant, with some critics even calling it his finest work.

The best poems by Charles Simic harbor an enigmatic simplicity, contain an evasive weight to them. Influenced by riddles, parables and nursery rhymes, Simic populates the folk world of his poems with simple objects and puzzling omens. His poems have the atmosphere of a Bruegel feast day, without any of the people.

The fact is significant. For Simic’s best poems share a quality with good photographs, the unceasing attention to objects in an effort to see them anew. At his best, it is the intensity of Simic’s imagination as it attempts to animate the objects and renew itself that interests us.

So what is the verdict? Has Simic’s achievement amounted to automatic, clever writing that must forever sacrifice its future breadth and seriousness to remain its present self? Is this poet finally ensnared in his own cleverness? This collection of “Selected Poems” might make it appear so.

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