Charles Simic is widely recognized as one of America's leading poets. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Simic's Selected Poems, 1963-1983, was lauded as "easily the best volume of poetry published in 1985." In this newly expanded edition entitled Selected Early Poems, to which the author has added twenty-seven poems and extensively revised others, we are treated to Simic's terse style, incisive imagery, and often disturbing rendering of everyday experiences -- all coupled with a delightful sense of humor and more than a touch of mysticism.