The World Doesn't End
A Poetry Collection
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · March 14, 1989
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.
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- Who it’s for
- Simic’s poems and prose poems pair mischievous turns with flashes of grim memory.
- Themes
- Social absurdity, World War II memory, Playful surprise
- Pacing
- Mixed
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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.
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Charles Simic has new eyes, and in these wonderful poems and poems-in-prose he lets us see through them.
A Sudden Turn
Simic’s poems and prose poems pair mischievous turns with flashes of grim memory.
Come here for
- Puns and pranks beside wistful memories of war
- Streetwise jazz with the occasional cloak of antiquity
Expect
- Poems and poems-in-prose with unpredictable turns
- A kiss, a bludgeon, or society’s absurdities
Where it sits
| American Poetry | 88% |
|---|---|
| War Poetry | 53% |
| Poetry About Death | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Plays by Women
- The Classics
- Literary Fiction
- Short Stories (Single Author)
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- Caribbean & Latin American Collections
- American Poetry
- African American Poetry
- Asian American Poetry
- Authors
- Charles Simic
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- March 14, 1989
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Social absurdity · World War II memory · Playful surprise
- Reading lane
- Plays by Women