The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
"One of the truly imaginative writers of our time." --Los Angles Times Book Review
You never know what Charles Simic is up to until you reach the end of the line or the bottom of the paragraph. Waiting for you might be a kiss. Or a bludgeon. A smile at the absurdities of society, or a wistful, grim memory of World War II.
He puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy and streetwise. Or cloak himself in antiquity.
Charles Simic has new eyes, and in these wonderful poems and poems-in-prose he lets us see through them.
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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Blindness
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Sophocles, the Oedipus Cycle
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El Principito (Spanish)
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The Little Prince
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Reflections on the Psalms
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Wind, Sand and Stars
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The Golden Apples
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The Inheritors
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Meridian
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The World of Venice
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Thirteen Stories
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The Man Who Wasn't Maigret
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The Town and the City
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Baby of the Family
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Depraved and Insulting English
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland
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In Love & Trouble
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The Distant Land of My Father
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Shipwrecks
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Handel's Messiah: A Celebration
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How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays
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The Ship and the Storm
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Buckley: The Right Word
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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The Cocktail Party
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The Conquest of the Incas
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A Journey to the End of the Millennium
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Strange Fits of Passion
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A Clergyman's Daughter
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Light on Aging and Dying
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Elizabeth and Essex
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The Millstone
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The Smithsonian Institution
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Cinnamon Gardens
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Sister Aimee
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Sade
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Eucalyptus
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Two Cheers for Democracy
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A Goat's Song
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The Female of the Species
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Riverwalking
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Heaven's Command
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Queen Victoria
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The World's Last Night
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The Oedipus Cycle
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator who was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and moved to America in 1954. He has produced twenty books of poetry, a memoir, the essay collection The Life of Images, and various books of translations since 1967, for which he has won numerous literary accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, the MacArthur Fellowship, and the Wallace Stevens Award. Simic is a regular writer to The New York Review of Books and was named United States poet laureate in 2007. He is an emeritus professor at the University of New Hampshire and a distinguished visiting writer at New York University, where he has taught since 1973.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780156983501 |
| ISBN 10 | 0156983508 |
| Title | The World Doesn't End |
| Author | Charles Simic |
| Series | Harvest Book |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ecco Press |
| Year published | 1989-03-14 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Prizes | Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 1990 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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