title: The Life of Images: Selected Prose
author:  Charles Simic 
description: Intriguing. . . . Virtually all the essays include sentences that could well find a home in Bartletts. . . . Lucid, lyrical, educative and engaging virtually all areas of the brain. (Kirkus Reviews <strong>(starred review)</strong>)<br /><br />Simics <i>The Life of Images: Selected Prose</i>, also published this month, elucidates the poems, providing background into his experience (including his childhood in war-torn Yugoslavia) and the influences that have shaped his thinking. (Washington Post)<br /><br />When our souls are happy, Charles Simic has written, they talk about food. When my soul is happy, often enough, I want to talk about Mr. Simic...<i>The Life of Images</i> reminds us that Mr. Simic can be...intense (and as intensely charming) in his nonfiction. (New York Times Book Review)<br /><br /><i>The Life of Images</i> is a free-wheeling and stimulating volume...Wry and smart...Simic is piquantly engaging, shrewdly hilarious, and superbly discerning and moving in his elucidation of poetrys invaluable unexpectedness, subversiveness, and inexhaustibility. (Booklist <strong>(starred review)</strong>)<br /><br />In artful, lucid, and sometimes humorous essays, he offers commanding insights on such diverse topics as poetrys relationship to philosophy, the ravages of war, and the unpredictable beauties of film and music...His wit shines and sparkles on every page. (Publishers Weekly)<br /><br />Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Simic brings a nuanced, cosmopolitan perspective to his essays, which explore art, intellect, his childhood memories, and the immigrant experience in America. (O, the Oprah Magazine)<br /><br /><i>The Lunatic</i>, his newest poetry collection, is his thirty-sixth. Simultaneously, Ecco, his publisher, has brought out <i> The Life of Images: Selected Prose </i>,... the cream of his six previous prose collections... one of our finest poets,... a singularly engaging, eminently sane American essayist. (New York Review of Books)<br /><br />Decades after immigrating to the States in 1954, he retains an outsiders perspective: inquisitive, incredulous, amazed by the apparently ordinary-all excellent qualities for an essayist. Theres ample warmth and charm here. (New York Times Book Review)
zlib_text: Tragic Props and Cognitive Function
  
  Mnemosyne
  Supplements
  Monographs on Greek and 
  Roman Language and Literature
  Editorial Board
  G. J. Boter
  A. Chaniotis
  K. M. Coleman 
  I. J. F. de Jong 
  T. Reinhardt
  VOLUME 317
  
  Tragic Props and
  Cognitive Function
  Aspects of the Function of Images in Th inking
  By
  Colleen Chaston
  LEIDEN • BOSTON
  2010
  
  ISSN 0169-8958
  ISBN 978 9004 17738 3
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