Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
06.10.2010
Verlag
HMH BooksSeitenzahl
96 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
1238 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780547504537
"This 20th collection from the former U.S. poet laureate departs only by degrees from his poems of earlier decades-but it could just be his best book." -
Publishers Weekly(starred review)
In his first volume of poetry since his tenure as poet laureate, Charles Simic shows he is at the height of his poetic powers. These new poems mine the rich strain of inscrutability in ordinary life, until it is hard to know what is innocent and what ominous. There is something about his work that continues to be crystal clear and yet deeply weighted with violence and mystery. Reading it is like going undercover. The face of a girl carrying a white dress from the cleaners with her eyes half-closed. The Adam & Evie Tanning Salon at night. A sparrow on crutches. A rubber duck in a shooting gallery on a Sunday morning. And someone in a tree swing, too old to be swinging and to be wearing no clothes at all, blowing a toy trumpet at the sky.
"Simic's compact poems carry concealed weapons amid unnerving juxtapositions... Simic's edgy, brooding poems are like saxophone solos played under a bridge in the deep, dark hours of the spinning world's bruising insomnia." -
Booklist
"In retrospect, the man who's referred to himself as a 'cheerful pessimist' succeeds again in demonstrating his ability to condense meaning without obscuring it, to empower his poems with paradox, and to mesh seamlessly the real and imagined. And though many of the poems in
Master of Disguises continue a style trend, they are also verbal tightropes off which a reader rarely falls, tightropes that demand-and deserve-a reader's complete attention." -
Rattle
Publishers Weekly(starred review)
In his first volume of poetry since his tenure as poet laureate, Charles Simic shows he is at the height of his poetic powers. These new poems mine the rich strain of inscrutability in ordinary life, until it is hard to know what is innocent and what ominous. There is something about his work that continues to be crystal clear and yet deeply weighted with violence and mystery. Reading it is like going undercover. The face of a girl carrying a white dress from the cleaners with her eyes half-closed. The Adam & Evie Tanning Salon at night. A sparrow on crutches. A rubber duck in a shooting gallery on a Sunday morning. And someone in a tree swing, too old to be swinging and to be wearing no clothes at all, blowing a toy trumpet at the sky.
"Simic's compact poems carry concealed weapons amid unnerving juxtapositions... Simic's edgy, brooding poems are like saxophone solos played under a bridge in the deep, dark hours of the spinning world's bruising insomnia." -
Booklist
"In retrospect, the man who's referred to himself as a 'cheerful pessimist' succeeds again in demonstrating his ability to condense meaning without obscuring it, to empower his poems with paradox, and to mesh seamlessly the real and imagined. And though many of the poems in
Master of Disguises continue a style trend, they are also verbal tightropes off which a reader rarely falls, tightropes that demand-and deserve-a reader's complete attention." -
Rattle
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