The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: Walking the Black Cat, Charles Simic

Walking the Black Cat

Charles Simic

In his thirteenth collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic melds folklore and black magic with everyday life.

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."--The New York Times Book Review

Book Details

  • Publisher: Ecco Press
  • Publish Date: Oct 17th, 1996
  • Pages: 96
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.46in - 5.44in - 0.29in - 0.29lb
  • EAN: 9780156004817
  • Categories: • American - General• Anthologies (multiple authors)• Women Authors

About the Author

Simic, Charles: -

Charles Simic was a poet, essayist, and translator who was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1954. He published more than twenty books of poetry, in addition to a memoir and numerous books of translations for which he received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Wallace Stevens Award. In 2007, he served as poet laureate of the United States. He was a distinguished visiting writer at New York University and professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, where he taught since 1973. He died in January 2023 at the age of eighty-four.