Classic Ballroom Dances by Charles Simic
Classic Ballroom Dances by Charles Simic. 1980 Braziller, first paperback edition, inscribed by author, 64 pages. Simic was a Serbian American poet and co-editor of poetry for the Paris Review. He won the Pulitzer, MacArthur Genius Grant, and more. According to Poetry Foundation: "Simic’s work defies easy categorization. Some poems reflect a surreal, metaphysical bent and others offer grimly realistic portraits of violence and despair." According to a review of Classic Ballroom in Ploughshares, "[H]is book features a number of fine poems in which the speaker himself assumes something of the innocence and dramatic autonomy of the spoon or knife of the earlier work."
Condition: VG. Inscribed by author, and includes a note, to poet and book reviewer Rod Steier
"The kid got so dirty
Playing in the ashes."
Classic Ballroom Dances by Charles Simic. 1980 Braziller, first paperback edition, inscribed by author, 64 pages. Simic was a Serbian American poet and co-editor of poetry for the Paris Review. He won the Pulitzer, MacArthur Genius Grant, and more. According to Poetry Foundation: "Simic’s work defies easy categorization. Some poems reflect a surreal, metaphysical bent and others offer grimly realistic portraits of violence and despair." According to a review of Classic Ballroom in Ploughshares, "[H]is book features a number of fine poems in which the speaker himself assumes something of the innocence and dramatic autonomy of the spoon or knife of the earlier work."
Condition: VG. Inscribed by author, and includes a note, to poet and book reviewer Rod Steier
"The kid got so dirty
Playing in the ashes."