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Walking the Black Cat Paperback - 1996 - 1st Edition

by Charles Simic


Summary

Hamlet’s ghost wandering the halls of a Vegas motel, a street corner ventriloquist using passersby as dummies, and Jesus panhandling in a weed-infested Eden are just a few of the startling conceits Simic unleashes in this collection. “Few contemporary poets have been as influential-or inimitable-as Charles Simic” (New York Times Book Review).

From the publisher

In his thirteenth collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic melds folklore and black magic with everyday life.

Hamlet's ghost wandering the halls of a Vegas motel, a street corner ventriloquist using passersby as dummies, and Jesus panhandling in a weed-infested Eden are just a few of the startling conceits Simic unleashes in this collection.

"Few contemporary poets have been as influential-or inimitable-as Charles Simic."--The New York Times Book Review

From the rear cover

In this latest collection of poems, Charles Simic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, brings us startling new visions of the haunted landscape that has been his oeuvre, where the surreal and the mundane, the sacred and profane, are indistinguishable, a world where "everything is teetering on the edge of everything/With a polite smile". A man waits at a bus stop for the love of his life, a woman (Lady Luck?) he's never met. The world's greatest ventriloquist who sits on a street corner uses passersby as dummies and speaks through us all. Hamlet's ghost walks the hallways of a Vegas motel. Sunlight streams through a windowpane of fire. Mary Magdalene cruises Santa Monica Boulevard. Flies from a slaughterhouse leave bloody tracks across the pages of a book. Jesus panhandles in a weed-infested Eden.

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  • Title Walking the Black Cat
  • Author Charles Simic
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ecco Press, New York
  • Date 1996-10-17
  • ISBN 9780156004817 / 015600481X
  • Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 5.44 x 0.29 in (21.49 x 13.82 x 0.74 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96017064
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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Citations

  • Booklist, 10/01/1996, Page 317
  • Library Journal, 11/01/1996, Page 71
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/30/1996, Page 82
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