Review
"Few contemporary poets have been as influential - or as inimitable - as Charles Simic.' New York Times Book Review; 'Surrealist, and therefore comic, but with a specific gravity in his imagining that manages to avoid the surrealist penalty of weightlessness.' Seamus Heaney; 'There is no American now writing whom I would rather read.' Michael Hofmann"
Product Description
Charles Simic is one of the leading American poets now writing. His first collection, Dismantling the Silence, was published in 1971, and in the three decades that have followed he has received numerous awards and honours for his work. This selection, made by the author himself from forty years' work, is an outstanding overview of an astonishing poet.