Amazon Editorial Review

In this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy and streetwise. Or cloak himself in antiquity. Simic has new eyes, and in these wonderful poems and poems-in-prose he lets the reader see through them.

These intense, somber poems were gripping and dreamlike. The grim details were lightened with irony and humor. These are the sort of verses that inspire the reader to see the world with focus. I will look for more Charles Simic after this.

The book label features my photo of Georgia artist Steffen Thomas' TRILON, which is at an intersection of Peachtree and 15th Streets near the High Museum and Colony Square in Atlanta. A native of Fürth, Germany, Thomas was of Welch and German ancestry. He first made his home here in Georgia back in the 1930s and married Sara Douglass, a Southern lady from a prominent Atlanta family, in 1933. Sara became his lifelong muse. They raised four children in Stone Mountain, Georgia, near his studio. Trilon honors the Southern Woman.

For a bookcrossing friend: May this heighten your experience of life and poetry!

Received this beautiful book of prose and poems from Cordelia. Thank you for thinking of me. I am enjoying the book. Keep it by my chair in the living room to peruse. Mr. Simic is quite deep and intriguing as a writer and a poet.