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| Author | Charles Simic |
|---|---|
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
| Publication date | 1989 |
| Publication place | United States of America |
| ISBN | 978-0156983501 |
The World Doesn't End (1989) is a collection of prose poems by Charles Simic. The collection won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990.
Contents
The collection begins with an epigraph from Fats Waller: "Let's waltz the Rumba."
The collection is divided into three parts of untitled prose poems, each ranging between two and five lines. Each poem is indicated in the collection's table of contents by the first several words of each poem:
Part IPart II
Part III
Reception
Some critics have credited The World Doesn't End with a resurgence of the prose poem form in American Poetry. Christopher Buckley argued that Simic chose the prose poem form because it most closely approximates the Eastern European folk tale.
Footnotes
- "The World Doesn't End (1990 Pulitzer Prize Winner)". pulitzer.org.
- ^ Christopher Buckley 2008, p. 96.
- ^ Lux 1989, p. 9.
- Dourado 2017, p. 197.
Works cited
- Dourado, Maysa Cristina S. (3 March 2017). "Charles Simic's "The World Doesn't End": Prose Poems". A Cor das Letras. 9 (1): 197. doi:10.13102/cl.v9i1.1550.
- Lux, Thomas (1989). "Review of The World Doesn't End". Harvard Book Review (11/12): 9. ISSN 1080-6067. JSTOR 27545354.
- Christopher Buckley (2008). Weigl, Bruce (ed.). Charles Simic: Essays on the Poetry. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472107131.