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Charles Simic ist einer der großen Lyriker unserer Zeit und einer der feinfühligsten Chronisten des Menschseins. Seine Dichtung ist einzigartig in ihrer Verbindung von Witz und Melancholie, ihrer tiefen Empathie, die selbst der Fliege gilt: "In einem Palast solltest du leben wie ein König / Und nicht auf meiner Küchenwand zittern." Geboren in einem Land, das es nicht mehr gibt, hat es den Dichter im Leben herumgetrieben und er lernte die Gerec...

Loneliness, loss, sadness, and mystery mark this wonderful volume of forty-nine poems by Charles Simic, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and praised as "one of the truly imaginative writers of our time” by the Los Angeles Times.

In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and american present-a world of his own creation, one always full of luminous surprise. "Simic writes so simply that his words fall like drops of water, but they ripple outward to evoke an ominous and numinous world” (Washington Post Book World).

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 wrote...

Whether he draws for inspiration on American blues, Serbian folktales, or Greek myths, Simic's words have a way of their own. Each of these forty-four poems is a powerful mixture of concrete images. Each records the reality and myth of the world around us-and in us. "Short, perfectly shaped, Simic's poems float past like feathers, turning one way, then another" (Village Voice).