{"title":"Charles Simic","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1954. His first full-length collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eWhat the Grass Says,\u003c\/em\u003e was published a year after his graduation from New York University. Since then, he has published over sixty books abroad and in the United States, for which he has received many literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, the MacArthur Fellowship and the Wallace Stevens Award. He is Emeritus Professor of the University of New Hampshire, where he has taught since 1973, and a past Poet Laureate of the United States. His translation of Serbian poet \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/novica-tadic\" title=\"Novica Tadic\"\u003eNovica Tadić\u003c\/a\u003e’s \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/translations\/products\/dark-things\" title=\"Dark Things\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDark Things\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e was published by BOA Editions in 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dark-things","title":"Dark Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDark Things\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of poems by the leading living Serbian poet of our time - Novica Tadić. The 48 poems in this manuscript have been translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic, who was born in Belgrade, and is considered one of America's leading translators of Eastern European poetry. Novica Tadić's poems are dark, brilliant, spare, and ever-mindful of the enormous acts of evil that human beings commit against each other. His brief words radiate far beyond themselves, as do their silences. Tadić’s vision is cold-eyed, drawn from a life lived where war and totalitarianism have been the status quo for decades. Charles Simic writes, “Tadić is a poet of the dark night of history. His protagonist, like the condemned Christ in some painterly depiction of Ecce Homo, is surrounded by an enraged mob, who, although wretched themselves, yearn to make his last moments even more miserable. The tormenting of the helpless is Tadić's recurrent theme.” \"His gripping, grotesque vision arrives at just the right time for an American audience, who see all around them, like Tadić, 'a world gone mad.'\" --\u003cem\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/em\u003e \"A life under tyranny accounts for the gloom and doom pervasive in these spare, elegant verses, expertly translated by Serbian-American poet Charles Simic...Simic's previous translations of Tadić (\u003cem\u003eNight Mail\u003c\/em\u003e; Oberlin College Press) won high praise, and this one is even stronger.\" --\u003cem\u003eArts with The Star Ledger\u003c\/em\u003e \"Here, the real and imaginary, the sense of poverty and of the richness of imagination, merge to produce a sense of grotesque anger and hunger.\" --\u003cem\u003eAmerican Poet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn a Train Station, Dream\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmall, bent over, gray,\u003cbr\u003eI'm sitting with arms crossed\u003cbr\u003eon my luggage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI ask nothing of no one.\u003cbr\u003eWait for no one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI don’t know where I’ve come from\u003cbr\u003enor where I’m going.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the trunk are my books.\u003cbr\u003eIn the suitcase are my shirts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI packed everything I had.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn my head I wear\u003cbr\u003ea cap of many colors,\u003cbr\u003emy great pride and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd, 2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvailable Editions:\u003cbr\u003e--------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003ePaperback $16.00\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8419989637,"sku":"9781934414231","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/DARK_THINGS.jpg?v=1527683205"},{"product_id":"little-mr-prose-poem-selected-poems-of-russell-edson","title":"Little Mr. Prose Poem: Selected Poems of Russell Edson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA baby that keeps losing its brain, a cow in a wedding gown, a woman whose chest is a radio—bizarre and whimsical figures populate the dreamlike prose poems of Russell Edson (1935-2014).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA seminal voice in American prose poetry from the sixties onward, Edson’s whole career is surveyed in a single volume edited for our times, presenting a new and contemporary view of a poet of startling imagination and strangeness. Craig Morgan Teicher calls us to witness Edson’s obsessions with the curious, the absurd, and the peculiar, and the ways in which they can haunt our daily lives. The prose poems in this collection mold our everyday into something extraordinary and unsettling. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEdson’s poems are surreal fables in which his characters experience all that life throws at them— marriage, parenthood, technological advances, aging, dying, the afterlife— through irreverent dialogue and vivid imagery in turns both humorous and grotesque. Russell Edson is a vital and ever-contemporary poet with a unique moral and comedic vision, whose literary career quietly yet definitively shaped the prose poetry subgenre as we know it now. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eLittle Mr. Prose Poem\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"These off-kilter tales and tableaux balance the humorous and the serious, the macabre and the sweet, offering much beauty and endlessly startling turns to be explored.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, ★ Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eClouds\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e     A husband and wife climbed to the roof of their house, and each at the extremes of the ridge stood facing the other the while that the clouds took to form and reform. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e     The husband said, shall we do backward dives, and into windows floating come kissing in a central room?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     I am standing on the bottom of an overturned boat, said the wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     The husband said, shall I somersault along the ridge of the roof and up your legs and through your dress out of the neck of your dress to kiss you?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     I am a roof statue on a temple in an archaeologist’s dream, said the wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     The husband said, let us go down now and do what it is to make another come into the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e     Look, said the wife, the eternal clouds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42521669992677,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/LittleMrProsePoem_CVR_RGB_SM.jpg?v=1645560432"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/Charles_Simic.jpg?v=1526051647","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/charles-simic.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}