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The author brings decades of experience from advanced creative writing classes (University of Richmond

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The Monster Loves His Labyrinth College & University The author brings decades of"Nabokovian in his caustic charm and sexy intelligence, Simic perceives the mythic in the mundane and pinpoints the perpetual suffering that infuses human life with both agony and bliss. . . . And he is the master of juxtaposition, lining up the unlikeliest of pairings and contrasts as he explores the nexuses of madness and prophecy, hell and paradise, lust and death." Donna Seaman, Booklist As one reads the pithy, wise, occasionally cranky epigrams