Charles Simic's Insomnia: Presence, Emptiness, and the Secular Divine

The poet Charles Simic is obsessed with images. Images are the primary matrix of his poetry, and in that poetry it is the images which perform what he calls a critique of language. This article uses the figure of insomnia—a common image in Simic's poems—to explore the nature of this critique. A...

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Main Author: Atchley, J. Heath (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2003
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2003, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 44-58
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