| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
ix, 74 pages ; 20 cm |
| Summary |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of prose poems by Charles Simic. |
| Contents |
My mother was -- Scaliger turns deadly -- I was stolen -- It's a store -- She's pressing me -- We were so poor -- I am the last -- Everybody knows the -- He held the beast -- It was the epoch -- Ghost stories written -- In the fourth year -- The city had fallen -- I played in the smallest theatres -- The stone is -- They wheeled out -- Lover of endless -- The flies -- History lessons -- The hundred year old -- In a forest of -- Everything's foreseeable -- He calls one dog -- A dog with a soul -- Time the lizard -- Margaret was copying -- A poem about sitting -- Dear Friedrich -- Tropical luxuriance -- The clouds told him -- Are Russian cannibals -- An actor pretending -- The dead man -- My guardian angel -- The dog went -- Things were not -- A hen larger -- The old farmer -- The rat kept -- O witches O poverty -- Once I knew -- The ideal spectator -- Thousands of old men -- My thumb is -- Gospel -- M. -- A century -- A black child -- Police dogs -- Ambiguity created by -- The time of minor poets -- At least four -- Comedy of errors -- The fat man -- A week long holiday -- Lots of people -- O the great God -- I knew a night owl -- My father loved -- An arctic voyager -- All this gets us -- From inside the pot -- Where ignorance is -- He had mixed up -- Someone shuffles -- A much dwindled -- My secret identity is. |
| Awards |
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1990. |
| Subject |
Prose poems, American.
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Prose poems, American. (OCoLC)fst01079317
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| Added Title |
World does not end |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Simic, Charles, 1938- World doesn't end. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1989 (OCoLC)597383461 |
| ISBN |
0151985758 |
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9780151985753 |
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0156983508 (pbk.) |
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9780156983501 (pbk.) |
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