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Reviewed on October 15, 2000
Celebrated poet Simic (winner of both a Pulitzer and a MacArthur) here offers his memoirs. The first 15 chapters present a consistent narrative, moving from Simic's childhood in war-torn Yugoslavia and Paris to his young manhood in Chicago and New York City. Here he sets up motives of European surrealism, mysticism, eroticism, and flights of romance and rhetoric. Simic's Slavic originality is introduced with s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More