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Jackstraws Paperback - 2000
by Simic, Charles
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Details
- Title Jackstraws
- Author Simic, Charles
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvest Books, San Diego
- Date 2000-04-01
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 748551
- ISBN 9780156010986 / 0156010984
- Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 7.95 x 5.28 x 0.33 in (20.19 x 13.41 x 0.84 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Caribbean
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98035354
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
Summary
In this new collection of sixty-two poems Charles Simic paints exquisite and shattering word pictures that lend meaning to a chaotic world populated by insects, bridal veils, pallbearers, TV sets, parrots, and a finely detailed dragonfly. Suffused with hope yet unafraid to mock his own credulity, Simic's searing metaphors unite the solemn with the absurd. His raindrops listen to each other fall and collect memories; his wildflowers are drunk with kissing the red-hot breezes; and his God is a Mr. Know-it-all, a wheeler-dealer, a wire-puller. In this latest lyrical gathering, Simic continues to startle his fans with the powerful and surprising images that are his trademark-slangy images of the ethereal, fantastic visions of the everyday, foreign scenes of the all-American-and moments full of humor and full of heartache.
First line
Who put canned laughter Into my crucifixion scene?
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Citations
- New York Times, 04/23/2000, Page 24