The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic

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. 

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.