Charles Simic
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Night Picnic: Poems (Harcourt)
Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Simic examines his work under the lens of political terror and the subsequent experience of immigration. As a result, his poems, usually regarded as metaphysical whimsy, acquire a more immediate, darker resonance.
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- Charles Simic: author, 'Night Picnic'
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