New And Selected Poems: 1962-2012

"Charles Simic is justifiably famous, having taken poetry by storm in the late ‘60s and ‘70s with compact lyrics that combine a wry, Eastern European sense of humor with memories of a childhood haunted by war. Anyone who likes poetry has probably read at least a few of his surreal-seeming poems, which tell more of the truth than they let on. This the first selection of Simic’s poems to span the six decades during which Simic has been writing, making it an essential book."