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New and Selected Poems

1962-2012

By: Charles Simic

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New and Selected Poems

1962-2012

By: Charles Simic

The first ever volume of new and selected poetry from one of our most celebrated and acclaimed poets, Charles Simic.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547928289

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9780547928289

A Wedding In Hell

By: Charles Simic

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Simic puts chirping birds, sex, and happiness into a world of broken windows, shivering trees, soldiers, lone dogs, the homeless of the city, and a God still making up his mind. “Provocative...a tantalizing, beautiful fusion of visions” (Bloomsbury Review).

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HarperCollins

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0547691726

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9780547691725

No Land in Sight

Poems

By: Charles Simic

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No Land in Sight

Poems

By: Charles Simic

From one of America's most beloved poets, a piercing new collection reflecting on the characters and encounters that haunt us through this life and into the next Leading us into a city stirring with gravediggers and beggars, lovers and dogs, Charles Simic returns with a brilliant collection full of his singular wit, dark humor, and tenderheartedness. In poems that are often as spare as they are monumental, he captures the fleeting moments of modern life—peering inside pawnshop windows, brushing shoulders with strangers on the street, and walking familiar cemetery rows—to uncover all the beauty and worry hiding in plain sight. As the poet reflects on a lifetime’s worth of pleasure and loss, he recalls instances when he “made excuses and hurried away,” and considers the way memory always trails just behind. No Land in Sight is a testament to all we leave in our wake and, simultaneously, all we hang on to: the passing minutes, the evening’s stillness, and the many lives we inhabit in dim thresholds and bright mornings alike.

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Knopf

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059353493X

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9780593534939

Confessions of a Poet Laureate

By: Charles Simic

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Confessions of a Poet Laureate

By: Charles Simic

A NEW YORK REVIEW E-BOOK ORIGINAL As former U.S. poet laureate Charles Simic has said, the secret to our identities lies not in grand events, but in the parentheses between events--and in these brief essays, we get a taste of this great poet's parenthetical observations and recollections. He takes us from his rattling house on a stormy New Hampshire night, to a park bench in Washington Square where two old men sit discussing the women they've known, to a business convention in Topeka where he reads a poem, to the vanished subterranean jazz clubs of old New York, and beyond. Part autobiographical fragment, part waking dream, these pieces are marked by Simic's characteristic wit, audacity, and awe before life's strangeness. Contents include: --Reminiscing about the Night Before --Strangers on a Train --Confessions of a Poet Laureate --The Blustering Blast --The Buster Keaton Cure --On Losing --On the Couch with Philip Roth, at the Morgue with Pol Pot

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New York Review of Books

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159017478X

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9781590174784

Night Picnic

Poems

By: Charles Simic

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Night Picnic

Poems

By: Charles Simic

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet “illuminates the shadow side of life in poems as perfectly formed and directed as the beam of a flashlight” (Booklist). The poems in Charles Simic’s new collection evoke a variety of settings and images, from New York City to small New England towns; from crowds spilling onto the sidewalk on a hot summer night to an abandoned wooden church and a car graveyard overgrown with weeds. His subjects range from a bakery early in the morning to the fingerprints on a stranger’s front door; from waiters in an empty restaurant to the decorations in a window of a funeral home; from a dog tied to a chain to a homeless man sleeping at the foot of a skyscraper; and other moments of solitude and clear vision. “What is beautiful,’ he writes in one poem, “is found accidentally and not sought after. What is beautiful is easily lost.” Simic is the metaphysician of the ordinary, a poet who reminds us of the mysteries of our daily lives. “This first book of poems since 1999’s Jackstraws continues Simic’s familiar, unsettling methods and extends them into the terrain of older age . . . Simic remains a powerful, and funny, chronicler of an individual world one where pastry, omelets and queen-size beds offer their ambiguous pleasures, and where, inseparably, ‘the butchery of the innocent/ Never stops.’ It is a world that should be familiar.” —Publishers Weekly “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.” —Booklist

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0544102428

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9780544102422

The Voice At 3:00 A.m.

Selected Late and New Poems

By: Charles Simic

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The Voice At 3:00 A.m.

Selected Late and New Poems

By: Charles Simic

Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the seemingly mundane minutiae of contemporary American culture, Simic matches meditations on spiritual concerns and the weight of history with a nimble wit, shifting effortlessly to moments of clear vision and intense poetic revelation. Chosen as one of the New York Library's 25 Books to Remember for 2003, The Voice at 3:00 A. M. was also nominated for a National Book Award. The recipient of many prizes, Simic most recently received Canada's Griffin Prize. The poems in this collection--spanning two decades of his work--present a rich and varied survey of a remarkable lyrical journey. In the Street Beauty, dark goddess, We met and parted As though we parted not. Like two stopped watches In a dusty store window, One golden morning of time.

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197

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HarperCollins

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0547546327

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9780547546322

Come Closer and Listen

New Poems

By: Charles Simic

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Come Closer and Listen

New Poems

By: Charles Simic

An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the latest work from one of our most beloved poets. With his trademark sense of humor, open-hearted empathy, and perceptive vision, Charles Simic roots his poetry in the ordinary world while still taking in the wide sweep of the human experience. From poems pithy, wry, and cutting—“Time—that murderer/that no has caught yet”—to his layered reflections on everything from love to grief to the wonders of nature, from the story of St. Sebastian to that of a couple weeding side by side, Simic’s work continues to reveal to us an unmistakable voice in modern poetry. An innovator in form and a chronicler of both our interior lives and the people we are in the world, Simic remains one of our most important and lasting voices on the page.

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0062908480

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9780062908483

Master of Disguises

Poems

By: Charles Simic

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Master of Disguises

Poems

By: Charles Simic

“This 20th collection from the former U.S. poet laureate departs only by degrees from his poems of earlier decades—but it could just be his best book.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) In his first volume of poetry since his tenure as poet laureate, Charles Simic shows he is at the height of his poetic powers. These new poems mine the rich strain of inscrutability in ordinary life, until it is hard to know what is innocent and what ominous. There is something about his work that continues to be crystal clear and yet deeply weighted with violence and mystery. Reading it is like going undercover. The face of a girl carrying a white dress from the cleaners with her eyes half-closed. The Adam & Evie Tanning Salon at night. A sparrow on crutches. A rubber duck in a shooting gallery on a Sunday morning. And someone in a tree swing, too old to be swinging and to be wearing no clothes at all, blowing a toy trumpet at the sky. “Simic’s compact poems carry concealed weapons amid unnerving juxtapositions . . . Simic’s edgy, brooding poems are like saxophone solos played under a bridge in the deep, dark hours of the spinning world’s bruising insomnia.” —Booklist “In retrospect, the man who’s referred to himself as a ‘cheerful pessimist’ succeeds again in demonstrating his ability to condense meaning without obscuring it, to empower his poems with paradox, and to mesh seamlessly the real and imagined. And though many of the poems in Master of Disguises continue a style trend, they are also verbal tightropes off which a reader rarely falls, tightropes that demand—and deserve—a reader’s complete attention.” —Rattle

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0547504535

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Sixty Poems

By: Charles Simic

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Sixty Poems

By: Charles Simic

Here are sixty of Charles Simic's best known poems, collected to celebrate his appointment as the fifteenth Poet Laureate of the United States.

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115

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HarperCollins

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0547544995

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9780547544991

Hotel Insomnia

By: Charles Simic

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Hotel Insomnia

By: Charles Simic

In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and american present-a world of his own creation, one always full of luminous surprise. “Simic writes so simply that his words fall like drops of water, but they ripple outward to evoke an ominous and numinous world” (Washington Post Book World).

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0547691750

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The Book Of Gods And Devils

By: Charles Simic

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The Book Of Gods And Devils

By: Charles Simic

Loneliness, loss, sadness, and mystery mark this wonderful volume of forty-nine poems by Charles Simic, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and praised as “one of the truly imaginative writers of our time” by the Los Angeles Times.

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0547691777

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9780547691770

Unending Blues

Poems

By: Charles Simic

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Unending Blues

Poems

By: Charles Simic

Whether he draws for inspiration on American blues, Serbian folktales, or Greek myths, Simic's words have a way of their own. Each of these forty-four poems is a powerful mixture of concrete images. Each records the reality and myth of the world around us-and in us. "Short, perfectly shaped, Simic's poems float past like feathers, turning one way, then another" (Village Voice).

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0547691742

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Walking the Black Cat

Poems

By: Charles Simic

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Walking the Black Cat

Poems

By: Charles Simic

Poems by the Pulitzer prize winner.

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015600481X

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9780156004817

The World Doesn't End

A Poetry Collection

By: Charles Simic

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The World Doesn't End

A Poetry Collection

By: Charles Simic

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry “One of the truly imaginative writers of our time.” —Los Angles Times Book Review You never know what Charles Simic is up to until you reach the end of the line or the bottom of the paragraph. Waiting for you might be a kiss. Or a bludgeon. A smile at the absurdities of society, or a wistful, grim memory of World War II. He puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy and streetwise. Or cloak himself in antiquity. Charles Simic has new eyes, and in these wonderful poems and poems-in-prose he lets us see through them.

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0547546882

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9780547546889

Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk

Poems

By: Charles Simic

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Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk

Poems

By: Charles Simic

Poems search for the spiritual essence of everyday emotional and physical experiences

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George Braziller

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0807607339

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9780807607336

Memory Piano

By: Charles Simic

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Memory Piano

By: Charles Simic

This title examines not only other writers' works with a critical eye, but also breaks boundaries in Simic's exploration of the outer and inner reaches of the human condition. Included here are essays on April Bernard, Robinson Jeffers, Donald Justice, Pablo Neruda, Gerald Stern, Richard Wilson, and more.

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260

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University of Michigan Press

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0472069403

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9780472069408

Book's by Charles Simic

New and Selected Poems

New and Selected Poems

A Wedding In Hell

A Wedding In Hell

No Land in Sight

No Land in Sight

Confessions of a Poet Laureate

Confessions of a Poet Laureate

Night Picnic

Night Picnic

The Voice At 3:00 A.m.

The Voice At 3:00 A.m.

Come Closer and Listen

Come Closer and Listen

Master of Disguises

Master of Disguises

Sixty Poems

Sixty Poems

Hotel Insomnia

Hotel Insomnia

The Book Of Gods And Devils

The Book Of Gods And Devils

Unending Blues

Unending Blues

Walking the Black Cat

Walking the Black Cat

The World Doesn't End

The World Doesn't End

Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk

Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk

Memory Piano

Memory Piano

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