Walking the black cat : poems
(Book)
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Published
New York : Harcourt Brace & Co., [1996].
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
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Published
New York : Harcourt Brace & Co., [1996].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xi, 83 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Notes
Description
In this latest collection of poems, Charles Simic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, brings us startling new visions of the haunted landscape that has been his oeuvre, where the surreal and the mundane, the sacred and profane, are indistinguishable, a world where "everything is teetering on the edge of everything/With a polite smile." A man waits at a bus stop for the love of his life, a woman (Lady Luck?) he's never met. The world's greatest ventriloquist who sits on a street corner uses passersby as dummies and speaks through us all. Hamlet's ghost walks the hallways of a Vegas motel. Sunlight streams through a windowpane of fire. Mary Magdalene cruises Santa Monica Boulevard. Flies from a slaughterhouse leave bloody tracks across the pages of a book. Jesus panhandles in a weed-infested Eden.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Simic, C. (1996). Walking the black cat: poems (First edition.). Harcourt Brace & Co..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Simic, Charles, 1938-. 1996. Walking the Black Cat: Poems. Harcourt Brace & Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Simic, Charles, 1938-. Walking the Black Cat: Poems Harcourt Brace & Co, 1996.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Simic, Charles. Walking the Black Cat: Poems First edition., Harcourt Brace & Co., 1996.
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