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Wonderful Words, Silent Truth
Essays on Poetry and a Memoir

Charles Simic

Named 2007 U.S. Poet Laureate

Included in this collection of essays is an autobiographical sketch of the poet's early years in Yugoslavia during World War II

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About the Book

The essays in Wonderful Words, Silent Truth touch Charles Simic's deepest concerns as a poet. The longest piece is an autobiographical narrative of his early years in Yugoslavia during the Second World War. Other contributions in this volume range from essays on philosophy and painting to entries from Simic's notebooks of the last twenty years. One of the essays, "Reading Philosophy at Night," was included in this year's anthology The Best American Essays, 1988, edited by Annie Dillard.