Walking the Black Cat

<p><strong>In his thirteenth collection </strong><strong>Pulitzer Prize-winning poet </strong><strong>Charles Simic melds folklore and black magic with everyday life.</strong></p><p>Hamlet's ghost wandering the halls of a Vegas motel a street corner ventriloquist using passersby as dummies and Jesus panhandling in a weed-infested Eden are just a few of the startling conceits Simic unleashes in this collection. </p><p>Few contemporary poets have been as influential-or inimitable-as Charles Simic.<em>--The New York Times Book Review</em></p>