Title: A wedding in hell : poems /
Authors: Simic, Charles, 1938-; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Harcourt Brace,
Year: 1994
Subjects: American poetry
Abstract: The poetry of a Yugoslav-American. In Explaining a Few Things, he writes: "Every worm is a martyr, / Every sparrow subject to injustice, / I said to my cat, / Since there was no one else around." By the author of The World Doesn't End, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Contents: Miracle Glass Co. -- Late arrival -- Childhood at the movies -- Tattooed city -- Dream avenue -- Sinister company -- Haunted mind -- Paradise motel -- On a side street -- Voice from the cage -- A wedding in hell -- The dead in photographs -- Madame Thebes -- Documentary -- Evening visitor -- The oldest child -- The massacre of the innocents -- Pascal's idea -- The world -- The clocks of the dead -- Raskolnikov -- Mad business -- This morning -- The church of insomnia -- Heroic moment -- The beggar on Houston Street -- Wanted poster -- Happiness -- Explaining a few things -- Grim contingencies -- The crystal pyramid -- Pocket theater -- Divine collaborator -- The supreme moment -- Crazy about her shrimp -- Transport -- Awaiting judgement -- Love flea -- What I overheard -- The secret -- Leaves -- The pleasures of reading -- In ecstasy of surrender -- Where the dreamy Wabash flows -- A puppet play -- Hoarder of tragedy -- Paper dolls cut out of a newspaper -- Reading history -- Men deified because of their cruelty -- Psalm -- The story of Cercopes -- The big coverup -- Empires -- In strange cities -- The story of the crucifixion -- Midnight serenaders -- At sunset -- Romantic landscape -- Dark TV screen -- Prayer -- Children of the storm -- Mystics -- Imported novelties -- Via del Tritone -- Shaving -- Trailerpark -- The tower -- Little prophet -- Mystery writer -- The secret.