{"product_id":"walking-the-black-cat-paperback","title":"Walking the Black Cat - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Simic\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn his thirteenth collection, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning poet \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Simic melds folklore and black magic with everyday life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHamlet'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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Few contemporary poets have been as influential-or inimitable-as Charles Simic.\"\u003cem\u003e--The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this latest collection of poems, Charles Simic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, brings us startling new visions of the haunted landscape that has been his oeuvre, where the surreal and the mundane, the sacred and profane, are indistinguishable, a world where \"everything is teetering on the edge of everything\/With a polite smile\". A man waits at a bus stop for the love of his life, a woman (Lady Luck?) he's never met. The world's greatest ventriloquist who sits on a street corner uses passersby as dummies and speaks through us all. Hamlet's ghost walks the hallways of a Vegas motel. Sunlight streams through a windowpane of fire. Mary Magdalene cruises Santa Monica Boulevard. Flies from a slaughterhouse leave bloody tracks across the pages of a book. Jesus panhandles in a weed-infested Eden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 8.46 x 5.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 17, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724680237119,"sku":"9780156004817","price":22.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6dfd8df445fec5d2e6383fe0ea2f2075.webp?v=1765103531","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/walking-the-black-cat-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}