Dismantling the Silence

Name: Dismantling the Silence
Author: Charles Simic

by Charles Simic

Poems about silence, war, Eastern European identity, and dark knowledge

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Charles Simic

Serbian-American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for The World Doesn't End and served as Poet Laureate. His surrealist, darkly comic poems draw on the violence of twentieth-century history.

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