Memory Piano

A volume in the Poets on Poetry series. Poets on Poetry collects critical worksby contemporary poets gathering together the articles interviews and bookreviews ... » 

A volume in the Poets on Poetry series. Poets on Poetry collects critical worksby contemporary poets gathering together the articles interviews and bookreviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.An eclectic array of essays reviews and memoir by Pulitzer Prizewinning poetCharles SimicMemory Piano is the latest contribution to the Poets on Poetry series fromthe brilliant and prolific Charles Simic. The astute critical eye and engagingvoice that have characterized his earlier essay collections are evidentthroughout this volume. Simic not only examines other writers work but alsoexplores the outer and inner reaches of the human condition.Included here are penetrating essays on April Bernard Robinson Jeffers DonaldJustice Pablo Neruda Gerald Stern and Charles Wright among others inaddition to Simics musings on Eastern European poetry and politics and amemoir piece The Singing Simics.Charles Simic is an acclaimed poet novelist essayist and teacher. Winner ofa MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize he is the author of more thansixty books as well as numerous translations. He is Professor of English atthe University of New Hampshire where he has taught since 1973. «