Research Catalog

Title

Aunt Lettuce, I want to peek under your skirt : poems / by Charles Simic ; drawings by Howie Michels.

Author

Simic, Charles, 1938-2023

Publication

New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Michels, Howie
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

1 v. (unpaged) : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

This provocative, playful collaboration between Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Simic and noted illustrator Michels is a saucy Valentine's treat. Charles Simic, a leading light in the world of poetry, here turns his attention-and imagination!-to Eros. Sensual and skillfully wrought, Simic's erotic poems are electrified by brilliantly graphic and lush illustrations by Howie Michels. Excerpts of this collaboration were featured in Tin House's sold-out Sex issue, the magazine's most popular ever. A perfect gift for a lover, this racy and delightful collaboration celebrates the vivid literary pleasure that occurs when words and images get in bed together.

Subjects

• Poetry
• Fiction
• Erotic poetry, American

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Aunt Lettuce -- Love flea -- Margaret was copying -- Pretty picture -- Venus in a bath with cockroaches -- The scarecrow -- Love worker -- Small feast -- Crazy about her shrimp -- Eastern European cooking -- Love talk -- The invitation -- Cabbage -- Cafe Paradiso -- Beauty -- Touched by something higher -- The seeress -- At the cookout -- My beloved -- Stray dogs -- Pretty watchband -- Suffering for a cause -- St. George and the dragon -- Transport -- Martha's purse.

ISBN

1582344612 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^2004023839

OCLC

• 56755734
• SCSB-11776619

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library