num_pages: 96
description: In his thirteenth collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic melds folklore and black magic with everyday life. Hamlet’s ghost wandering the halls of a Vegas motel, a street corner ventriloquist using passersby as dummies, and Jesus panhandling in a weed-infested Eden are just a few of the startling conceits Simic unleashes in this collection.  “Few contemporary poets have been as influential-or inimitable-as Charles Simic." —The New York Times Book Review
language: English
title: Walking The Black Cat
titlecomplete: Walking The Black Cat
genres: Poetry, Fiction, Cats, 20th Century
ratings_count: 694
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Poetry
publisher: Ecco