New and Selected Poems

<p><strong>It takes just one glimpse of Charles Simic's work to establish that he is a master ruler of his own eccentric kingdom of jittery syntax and signature insight. -<em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong></p><p>For over fifty years Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant and innovative poetic imagery his sardonic wit and a voice all his own. He has been awarded nearly every major literary prize for his poetry including a Pulitzer and a MacArthur grant in addition to serving as the poet laureate of the United States in 2007 and 2008.</p><p>In this new volume he distills his life's work combining for the first time the best of his early poems with his later works--including nearly three dozen revisions--along with seventeen new never-before-published poems. Simic's body of work draws inspiration from a range of topics from the inscrutability of ordinary life to American blues from folktales to marriage and war.</p><p>Consistently exciting and unexpected the nearly four hundred poems in this volume represent the best of one of America's most distinguished and original poets.</p>