3640584
9780151421886
Hotel Insomnia
by Simic, Charles, Simic, Charles
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- Comments: Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Short gift inscription on front end page, else unmarked. <br> In this new volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning Charles Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. With empty offices and dolls that smile. With the sound of bare feet upstairs and a single kiss before the shadows converge. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and American present. It is a world of his own creation, one always full
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- ISBN-13: 9780151421886
- ISBN: 0151421889
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1938, and immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1954, at the age of 16. Recently retired from University of New Hampshire, where he taught American literature and creative writing, he was appointed the 15th Poet Laureate of the United States in August 2007. He has published more than 20 collections of poetry, as well as essay collections, translations, and a memoir. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 and held a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant from 1984 to 1989. The Academy of American Poets has just named him winner of the Wallace Stevens Award. He lives in New Hampshire.Simic, Charles is the author of 'Hotel Insomnia' with ISBN 9780151421886 and ISBN 0151421889.
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