Simpson, Louis (Vol. 9) - Simpson, Louis 1923–
Simpson, Louis 1923–
Simpson is a Jamaican-born American poet, novelist, and playwright. In his poetry he strives to create a tone of irony and mystery. He is considered a poet of imagination, his verse expressing the imagery of dreams. Simpson received the Pulitzer Prize in 1964. (See also CLC, Vols. 4, 7, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
Simpson—Jamaican-born, American-educated, Jewish—finds his inspiration, and his melancholy, faintly ironic happiness, in getting his back under the burden of things as they always have been….
I find the mood of these poems [in Searching for the Ox], and their reflective music, the slow, heavy plucking of strings, exceptionally attractive. One very moving poem, 'Baruch', places them in the background against which Simpson himself sees them. It is the tale of an ancestor, a Jewish hat-factory owner in Russia, who rejoices when the factory burns down, because at last...
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