So You Want to be a Poet?
Discover essential poetry books for aspiring poets, featuring Charles Simic's The World Doesn't End and Above the River—your curated reading list to ignite creativity and mastery.
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The World Doesn't End
by Charles Simic
In this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy and streetwise. Or cloak himself in antiquity. Simic has new eyes, and in these wonderful poems and poems-in-prose he lets the reader see through them.
