Hamlet's ghost wandering the halls of a Vegas motel, a street corner ventriloquist using passersby as dummies, and Jesus panhandling in a weed-infested Eden are just a few of the startling conceits Simic unleashes in this collection. "Few contemporary poets have been as influential-or inimitable-as Charles Simic" (New York Times Book Review).


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 10/17/1996
ISBN: 9780156004817
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.44w x 0.29d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/30/1996 pg. 82
Booklist 10/01/1996 pg. 317
Library Journal 11/01/1996 pg. 71