Wonderful Words, Silent Truth

Essays on Poetry and a Memoir

By Charles Simic

Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature
Paperback : 9780472064212, 144 pages, 5.25 x 8, April 1990
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9367
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Contents

Why I Like Certain Poems More Than Others     1
In the Beginning...     3
Reading Philosophy at Night     54
Notes on Poetry and Philosophy     62
Chinese Boxes and Puppet Theaters     69
Visionaries and Anti-Visionaries     72
Caballero Solo     82
Wonderful Words, Silent Truth     85
Thomas Campion     96
Ivan V. Lalic     101
Serbian Heroic Ballads     108
Introduction to the Poetry of Aleksandar Ristovic     113
Art Hodes     117
Notes on Bata Mihailovitch's Paintings     120
William Stafford's "At the Bomb Testing Site"     126

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Included in this collection of essays is an autobiographical sketch of the poet's early years in Yugoslavia during World War II

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