Charles Simic
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"My Noiseless Entourage is haunted by marooned, wordless individuals, but also by a sense of indecipherable, constant chatter, the murmuring on the other side of the wall. Charles Simic illuminates the slow, distracted quality of rural life, and the paranoia, the suspicions of city-dwellers. An old man sitting in his backyard with a rope in his hand. A flock of spooked starlings that seem to have heard something no one else has. The lodger no one...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
The poetry of a Yugoslav-American. In Explaining a Few Things, he writes: "Every worm is a martyr, / Every sparrow subject to injustice, / I said to my cat, / Since there was no one else around." By the author of The World Doesn't End, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume no. 196
Publisher
BOA Editions, Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A seminal voice in American prose poetry from the sixties onward, Russell Edson's whole career is surveyed in a single volume edited for our times, presenting a new and contemporary view of a poet of startling imagination and strangeness"--
