Memory piano / Charles Simic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simic, Charles, 1938-2023.

Series:

Poets on poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

237 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2006]

Summary:

Memory Piano is the latest contribution to the Poets on Poetry series from the brilliant and prolific Charles Simic. The astute critical eye and engaging voice that have characterized his earlier essay collections are evident throughout this volume. Simic not only examines other writers' work but also explores the outer and inner reaches of the human condition.

Included here are penetrating essays on April Bernard, Robinson Jeffers, Donald Justice, Pablo Neruda, Gerald Stern, and Charles Wright, among others, in addition to Simic's musings on Eastern European poetry and politics and a memoir piece, "The Singing Simics."

Contents:

1 Asphalt Jungle 1

2 Divine, Superfluous Beauty 4

3 The Mystery of Presence 16

4 The Always Vanishing World 28

5 You Can't Keep a Good Sonnet Down 40

6 The Image Hunter 52

7 "The Water Hose Is on Fire" 61

8 Tsvetaeva: The Tragic Life 74

9 Conspiracy of Silence 86

10 Archives of Horror 97

11 Where the Fun Starts 106

12 Poetry in Unlikely Places 117

13 The Golden Age of Hatred 130

14 What Ez Could Do 141

15 Adam's Umbrella 154

16 Down There on a Visit 165

17 Rx for American Poets 179

18 Saul Steinberg 190

19 The Singing Simics 193

20 The Wealth Poverty Buys 198

21 Angels on the Laundry Line 210

22 How I Found the Philosopher's Stone 223

23 The Memory Piano 225.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

047209940X

0472069403

OCLC:

62134665

Publisher Number:

9780472099405

9780472069408