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Since 1976, Christopher Reid has been startling and delighting readers of poetry. His philosphic concerns are often expressed in small, domestic details, but, as with the Metaphysical poets he admires, the effect heightens his poetry's seriousness and impact. Reid finds significance in the marginal, the endangered, the apocryphal, and the absurd. His verse, which has earned him both the distinguished Hawthornden and Somerset Maugham Prizes, is subversive and highly intelligent.
The Pultizer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic provides a welcome introduction to one of England's most distinguished and original voices.
The Pultizer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic provides a welcome introduction to one of England's most distinguished and original voices.
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Former poetry editor at Faber & Faber, Christopher Reid has published five volumes of poetry. He lives in London. Charles Simic, author of, most recently, Jackstraws, is the recepient of many awards and honors for his poetry. He lives in New Hampshire.
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Black Bananas
Arcadia
In this crayoned dream town,
the chimneys think smoke
and every house is lovingly
Battenburged with windows.
A studious invention:
these strange, ecstatic folk,
who tower above their dwellings
and whose trees are deckled biscuits,
nuggeted with fruit.
As they step among the traffic
that lurches down the road
on its long sum of noughts,
they look like damaged packages,
targets for pin limbs,
and yet they contrive to greet us
with smiles like black bananas.
Copyright ©2001by Christopher Reid
Introduction copyright ©2001by Charles Simic
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Arcadia
In this crayoned dream town,
the chimneys think smoke
and every house is lovingly
Battenburged with windows.
A studious invention:
these strange, ecstatic folk,
who tower above their dwellings
and whose trees are deckled biscuits,
nuggeted with fruit.
As they step among the traffic
that lurches down the road
on its long sum of noughts,
they look like damaged packages,
targets for pin limbs,
and yet they contrive to greet us
with smiles like black bananas.
Copyright ©2001by Christopher Reid
Introduction copyright ©2001by Charles Simic
Published by Harcourt, Inc. All rights reserved.
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