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Poems consider mortality, nature, consciousness, fear, purpose, the universe, sexuality, language, dreams, and history
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Simic, an important contemporary American poet, displays his originality and wit throughout this volume, even in the titles (``Concerning My Neighbors the Hittites'' and ``Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators''). His playful but disturbing parables present the familiar in an unusual perspective. Office workers become ``anonymous multitudes/ Bent over the day's/ Wondrously useless labor.'' Knives in a butcher shop ``glitter like altars/ In a dark church.'' Sometimes Simic's disconcerting juxtapositions point to nihilism, sometimes to ``a presentiment/ Of a higher existence/ In things familiar and drab.'' However, in exploring metaphysical conundrums Simic always takes joyful delight in the strange: ``Oh the sweet speech of trees/ In the evening breeze/ Of some other summer.'' Joseph A. Lipari, St. John's Univ. Lib., Staten Island Campus,
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