 Cover Page for The World Doesn't End | |
| Author | Charles Simic |
|---|---|
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
Publication date | 1989 |
| Publication place | United States of America |
| ISBN | 978-0156983501 |
The World Doesn't End (1989) is a collection of prose poems by Charles Simic. The collection won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990. [1]
The collection begins with an epigraph from Fats Waller: "Let's waltz the Rumba." [2]
The collection is divided into three parts of untitled prose poems, each ranging between two and five lines. [3] Each poem is indicated in the collection's table of contents by the first several words of each poem:
Part II
Part III
Some critics have credited The World Doesn't End with a resurgence of the prose poem form in American Poetry. [3] [4] Christopher Buckley argued that Simic chose the prose poem form because it most closely approximates the Eastern European folk tale. [2]
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