This is my favorite of the 4 Simic books I own. This one seems to teter on the darker side. I feel like he plays it less safe in this collection.
Simic still uses a less is more approach that works well in this book.
After reading this one and going into Wedding From Hell and Noiseless Entourage I found myself looking and anticipating the approach he demonstrated in Gods and Devils. Nonetheless, Simic is one of the best "known" poets writing today.
Read Franz Wright a contemporary and fellow Pulitzer Prize winner. Wright has delivered consistently in every one of his books that I own and has darkness in early work leading to light. He makes the transition from despair to hope extremely well and does not lose the edge of his earlier work.
Simic still uses a less is more approach that works well in this book.
After reading this one and going into Wedding From Hell and Noiseless Entourage I found myself looking and anticipating the approach he demonstrated in Gods and Devils. Nonetheless, Simic is one of the best "known" poets writing today.
Read Franz Wright a contemporary and fellow Pulitzer Prize winner. Wright has delivered consistently in every one of his books that I own and has darkness in early work leading to light. He makes the transition from despair to hope extremely well and does not lose the edge of his earlier work.
