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  | | Dime-Store Alchemy The Art of Joseph Cornell (New York Review Books Classics) by Charles Simic Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2011 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-486-9, ISBN: 1-59017-486-0 "... JAMES MCCOURT Mawrdew Czgowchwz HENRI MICHAUX Miserable Miracle JESSICA MITFORD Hons and Rebels JESSICA MITFORD Poison Penmanship NANCY MITFORD Madame dc Pompadour HENRY DE MONTHERLANT Chaos and Night BRIAN MOORE The Lonely Passion ofjudith I- Iearne BRIAN MOORE The Mangan Inheritance ALBERTO MORAVIA Boredom ALBERTO MORAVIA Contempt JAN MORRIS Conundrum JAN MORRIS Hav PENELOPE MORTIMER The ..." |
 | | Dime-Store Alchemy The Art of Joseph Cornell (New York Review Books Classics) by Charles Simic, Joseph Cornell Hardcover, 116 Pages, Published 2006 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-170-7, ISBN: 1-59017-170-5 "In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic refects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.In a work that is in various degrees biography, criticism, and sheer poetry, Simic tells the story of Cornell’s life and illuminates the hermetic mysterie ..." |
 | | The Horse Has Six Legs An Anthology of Serbian Poetry by Charles Simic, Graywolf Press Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2010 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-557-9, ISBN: 1-55597-557-7 "THE UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION OF THIS VITAL ANTHOLOGY, WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR CHARLES SIMIC When The Horse Has Six Legs was first published in 1992, as war and hatred tore through the Balkans, this anthology of Serbian poetry became a landmark for some of the most compelling poetry in the contemporary world. “The ironies, in 1993, of giving an award to Serbian poets will be evident to many,” Carolyn Kizer wr ..." |
 | | Darkness Spoken The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann (German Edition) by Ingeborg Bachmann, Peter Filkins, Charles Simic Paperback, 688 Pages, Published 2005 by Zephyr Press ISBN-13: 978-0-939010-84-4, ISBN: 0-939010-84-4 ""Darkness Spoken" gathers together Ingeborg Bachmann's two celebrated books of poetry, as well as early and late poems not collected in book form, over 100 of them appearing in English for the first time, as well as 25 poems never before published in German. Bachmann is considered one of the most important poets to emerge in postwar German letters, and this volume represents the largest collection available in English translation. Influ ..." |
 | | A Wake for the Living Poems (Bilingual Edition) by Charles Simic, Radmila. Lazic, Dogan Gürpinar Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2003 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-390-2, ISBN: 1-55597-390-6 "Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Simic introduces and translates the poems of Serbian feminist, activist, and writer Radmila LazicDead-born will be your wishes.Your every hope will be a widow.And as for love, there won't be enoughTo spread on a slice of bread. --from "Twilight Metaphysics"Translated and introduced with the surrealist wit that is Charles Simic's signature, A Wake for the Living offers American readers, for the first time in ..." |
 | | The Best American Essays 1997 by Ian Frazier, Robert Atwan, Geoffrey C. Ward, Signed. Bernard Cooper, Frazier/Atwan, Cynthia Ozick, Richard Ford, Charles Simic, Dagoberto Gilb, And Others Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 1997 by Houghton Mifflin ISBN-13: 978-0-395-85695-6, ISBN: 0-395-85695-7 "Ian Frazier's brightly eclectic edition serves as the perfect introduction to the extraordinary diversity of the new American essay. The Best American Essays features a selection of the year's outstanding essays, essays of literary achievement that show an awareness of craft and a forcefulness of thought. Hundreds of essays are gathered annually from a wide variety of national and regional publications. These essays are then screen ..." |
 | | 1941 The Year That Keeps Returning by Slavko Goldstein, Michael Gable, Charles Simic Hardcover, 622 Pages, Published 2013 by New York Review Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-673-3, ISBN: 1-59017-673-1 "A New York Review Books OriginalThe distinguished Croatian journalist and publisher Slavko Goldstein says, “Writing this book about my family, I have tried not to separate what happened to us from the fates of many other people and of an entire country.” 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning is Goldstein’s astonishing historical memoir of that fateful year—when the Ustasha, the pro-fascist nationalists, were brought to power in Croatia by ..." |
 | | Nothing is Lost Selected Poems (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation) by Edvard Kocbek, Michael Scammell, Veno Taufer, Charles Simic Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2004 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-11839-0, ISBN: 0-691-11839-6 "This is the first comprehensive English-language collection of verse by the most celebrated Slovenian poet of modern times and one of Europe's most notable postwar poets, Edvard Kocbek (1904-1981). The selections introduce the reader to the full spectrum of Kocbek's long and distinguished career, starting with the pantheist and expressionist nature poems of his early period and continuing through the politically engaged poetry written d ..." |
 | | Dark Things (Lannan Translations Selection Series) by Novica Tadic, Charles Simic, Introduction-Charles Simic Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2009 by Boa Editions Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-934414-23-1, ISBN: 1-934414-23-9 "Novica Tadic is Serbia’s leading poet and the linguistic heir to Vasko Popa. With this translation, US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winner Charles Simic brings the full range of Tadic’s dark beauty to light:I dream how on a flat surfaceI set down knives of various shapes and sizes.Already there are so many of themI can’t count them,or see them all. Someone’s being done inby those knives.Novica Tadic has won most major Serbian litera ..." |
 | | The Prince of Fire An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies) by Radmila Jovanović Gorup, Nadežda Obradović, Radmila J. Gorup, Radmilla Gorup, Charles Simic Hardcover, 371 Pages, Published 1998 by Univ Of Pittsburgh Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-4058-6, ISBN: 0-8229-4058-2 "Editors Gorup and Obradovic have collected stories from thirty-five outstanding writers in this first English anthology of Serbian fiction in thirty years. The anthology, representing a great variety of literary styles and themes, includes works by established writers with international reputations, as well as promising new writers spanning the generation born between 1930 and 1960. These stories may lead to a greater understanding of t ..." |
 | | Words Are Something Else (Writings From An Unbound Europe) by David Albahari, Tomislav Longinovic, Charles Simic, Ellen Elias-Bursac, Toma Longinović, Ellen Elias-Bursaac, Tomaslav Longinovic Hardcover, 215 Pages, Published 1996 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-1305-3, ISBN: 0-8101-1305-8 "Set in the author's native Serbia, this collection of short stories reveals a vision transcending the narrow world of Serbian nationalism. David Albahari is concerned with the separation of people, but in a more universal sense than the tribal. He has the modern writer's obsession with our inability to express in words what is really meant; he even plays with self-reference, pointing to the inability of a reader to grasp the hidden cont ..." |
 | | Words Are Something Else (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by David Albahari, Tomislav Longinovic, Charles Simic, Ellen Elias-Bursac, Ellen Elias-Bursaac, Tomaslav Longinovic, Ellen Ellas-Bursac, Toma Longinović Paperback, 215 Pages, Published 1996 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-1306-0, ISBN: 0-8101-1306-6 "Set in the author's native Serbia, this collection of short stories reveals a vision transcending the narrow world of Serbian nationalism. David Albahari is concerned with the separation of people, but in a more universal sense than the tribal. He has the modern writer's obsession with our inability to express in words what is really meant; he even plays with self-reference, pointing to the inability of a reader to grasp the hidden cont ..." |
 | | Devil's Lunch Selected Poems (Faber Poetry) by Aleksandar Ristovic, Charles Simic Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2000 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-20008-5, ISBN: 0-571-20008-7 "The powerful and deeply moving work of the Serbian poet Aleksandar Ristovíc, published for the first time in the United states.Make me a long coat of heavy cloth, tailor,the kind that won't fray,and of a dark color,so no one will notice the cigarette ashes.Make the dark trousers of the same material,to last as long as I want them to,wearing them to visit many cities, villages,and other out-of-the-way places. * * * * *Make me a ..." |
 | | Night Mail Selected Poems by Novica Tadic, Charles Simic, Nicola Tadic Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 1992 by Oberlin ISBN-13: 978-0-932440-59-4, ISBN: 0-932440-59-2 "Novica Tadic´, born in 1949, has lived most of his life in Belgrade. One of the most respected Yugoslavian poets of his generation, Tadic “weaves poetry whose images are visible and abstract. A labyrinth of masterful short poems.” (World Literature Today) Here masterfully translated by Yugoslavian-born poet Charles Simic." |
 | | Night Mail Selected Poems by Novica Tadic, Charles Simic Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 1992 by Oberlin College Press ISBN-13: 978-0-932440-60-0, ISBN: 0-932440-60-6 "Novica Tadic', born in 1949, has lived most of his life in Belgrade. One of the most respected Yugoslavian poets of his generation, Tadic "weaves poetry whose images are visible and abstract. A labyrinth of masterful short poems." (World Literature Today) Here masterfully translated by Yugoslavian-born poet Charles Simic." |
 | | Roll Call of Mirrors Selected Poems of Ivan V. Lalic (Wesleyan Poetry in Translation) by Ivan V. Lalic, Charles Simic, Ivan Lalilc Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1988 by Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-1152-2, ISBN: 0-8195-1152-8 "Ivan V. Lalic is one of the most important Serbian poets of the postwar generation. In Roll Call of Mirrors the translator Charles Simic, a native Yugoslavian, captures these poems in Lalic's own idiom, He retains their spare beauty, from the lyrical intensity of the early poems –; by a poet "destined to burn" –; to his later love of sonnets, to his most recent =, more meditative work on "what geometry dreams," and on the art of the poe ..." |
 | | Roll Call of Mirrors Selected Poems of Ivan V. Lalic (Wesleyan Poetry in Translation) by Ivan V. Lalic, Charles Simic, Contributor-Charles Simic Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 1988 by Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-2151-4, ISBN: 0-8195-2151-5 "Book by Lalic, Ivan V." |
 | | The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello, William Weaver, Charles Simic, Trans. Arthur Livingston Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2004 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-115-8, ISBN: 1-59017-115-2 "Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life―only to find that this new existence is as insufferable as the old one. But when he returns to the world he left behind, it's too late: his job is gone, his wife has remarried ..." |
 | | Thomas Campion Poems (Poet to Poet) by Charles Simic, Thomas Campion Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2007 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23664-0, ISBN: 0-571-23664-2 "In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature. Thomas Campion (1567-1620) was born in London and educated at Cambridge. He studied law at Gray's Inn, a ..." |
 | | The Plural of Happiness Selected Poems of Herman De Coninck by Herman De Coninck, Kurt Brown, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Charles Simic Paperback, 109 Pages, Published 2006 by Oberlin College Press ISBN-13: 978-0-932440-30-3, ISBN: 0-932440-30-4 "Herman de Coninck, Belgium’s leading poet for many decades, appears in English in a single volume for the first time. Witty, tender, trenchant, wise, de Coninck’s poems range from playful, terse love lyrics to darkly ironic, somberly truthful observations about human experience. Bosselaar and Brown, both fine poets in their own right, are skillful translators. ." |
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