In the spare, haunting vision of Charles Simic’s poems, the familiar takes on a disturbing, often sinister presence, and yet his work also transforms the ordinary world into a place of wonder and mystery, moved by unknowable forces. Already a recipient of the Pullitzer Prize (1990) and the MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant (1984), Simic was named U.S. poet laureate this summer, and his work is receiving international attention. Available again, Simic’s Selected Early Poems reveals the origin if his current explorations in what The New York Times called “one of the important poetic achievements of our time.”

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