Selected early poems

the long version

"For this new edition of his selected poems, Simic has added twenty eight poems and extensively revised others, making this the most complete collection available of his early work."--BOOK JACKET. "In the spare, haunting vision of these poems, the familiar takes on a disturbing, often sinister, presence. Life's horrors - violence, hunger, poverty, illness, loneliness - lurk unnervingly in the back ground. And yet, despite the horror, a sense of wonder pervades these poems, transforming the ordinary world into a mysterious place of unknowable forces."--BOOK JACKET.