{"product_id":"charles-simic-bruce-weigl-9780472032907","title":"Charles Simic: Essays on the Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Simic, recently named Poet Laureate of the United States, is one of America's most popular---and enigmatic---contemporary poets. Set apart from his contemporaries by a particularly inclusive and worldly vision, his is a poetic voice singular in our time for its quality of empathy, for its imagination-enriched logic, and for its deep and abiding clarity. In \u003ci\u003eCharles Simic: Essays on the Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e the perspectives of a range of critics, poets, and scholars (including James Atlas, William Matthews, Liam Rector, Helen Vendler and Diane Wakoski, among others) are brought together in an attempt to offer an appraisal of his art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book traces the critical reception to Simic's poetry, beginning with the earliest responses, and reveals a constantly changing image of the relationship between the poet and his work. Essays and book reviews from sometimes radically different points of view address the body of Simic's verse and attempt to delineate the aesthetic from which his art emerges. \u003ci\u003eCharles Simic: Essays on the Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e concludes with an extended interview and a selection of Simic's autobiographical writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBooks by Charles Simic available from the University of Michigan Press: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eMemory Piano\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Metaphysician in the Dark \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Fly in the Soup: Memoirs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eWonderful Words, Silent Truth: Essays on Poetry and a Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eBruce Weigl is author of thirteen collections of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eDeclension in the Village of Chung Luong\u003c\/i\u003e, editor of three collections of critical essays, and translator of three books of poetry from the Vietnamese and two from the Romanian. In 2006 he was awarded the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA volume in the Under Discussion series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Weigl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472032909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472032907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.46h x 5.71w x 0.65d","brand":"Bruce Weigl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448826245375,"sku":"9780472032907","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d8395dc0-da2a-4d18-896a-80bef0c9e9be.jpg?v=1777260767","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/charles-simic-bruce-weigl-9780472032907","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}