{"product_id":"the-monster-loves-his-labyrinth-paperback","title":"The Monster Loves His Labyrinth - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Simic\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nabokovian in his caustic charm and sexy intelligence, Simic perceives the mythic in the mundane and pinpoints the perpetual suffering that infuses human life with both agony and bliss. . . . And he is the master of juxtaposition, lining up the unlikeliest of pairings and contrasts as he explores the nexuses of madness and prophecy, hell and paradise, lust and death.\"--Donna Seaman, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As one reads the pithy, wise, occasionally cranky epigrams and vignettes that fill this volume, there is the definite sense that we are getting a rare glimpse into several decades worth of private journals--and, by extension are privy to the tickings of an accomplished and introspective literary mind.\"--\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten over many years, this book is a collection of notebook entries by our current Poet Laureate.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcerpts: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStupidity is the secret spice historians have difficulty identifying in this soup we keep slurping.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArs poetica: trying to make your jailers laugh.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican identity is really about having many identities simultaneously. We came to America to escape our old identities, which the multiculturalists now wish to restore to us.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmbiguity is the world's condition. Poetry flirts with ambiguity. As a \"picture of reality\" it is truer than any other. This doesn't mean that you're supposed to write poems no one understands.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe twelve girls in the gospel choir sang as if dogs were biting their asses.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat an outrage! This very moment gone forever!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Yugoslavia in 1938, Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at the University of NH, Charles Simic won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 1996 In 2007 he was appointed Poet Laureate and received the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52727965974835,"sku":"9781931337403","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/xedq7GSYyb9781931337403.webp?v=1783533741","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-monster-loves-his-labyrinth-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}