New York: Ecco, 199. — 96 p. — ISBN-10: 0156001292; ISBN-13: 978-0156001298. The world according to Simic (Hotel Insomnia) has never been an especially nice place, and his new collection of poems registers no signs of improvement. Urban decay, war and the depravities of false priests and corrupt rulers provide the occasions for much of this work, where private desperation is...
New York: Ecco, 2019. — 96 p. — ISBN-10: 0062908464; ISBN-13: 978-0062908469. 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...
New York: Ecco, 1992. — 79 p. — ISBN-10: 0156421828; ISBN-13: 978-0156421829. "Memory makes you hungry," writes Simic, whose poems are like folk tales told by a child with an impishly surrealistic streak. Memories of shadowy streets and rooms are haunted by an insomnia that suggests an enchanted dreamtime of watchfulness and revelation, where "everything is a magic ritual,/ a...
New York: Ecco, 2000. — 96 p. — ISBN-10: 0156010984; ISBN-13: 978-0156010986. In this new collection of sixty-two poems Charles Simic paints exquisite and shattering word pictures that lend meaning to a chaotic world populated by insects, bridal veils, pallbearers, TV sets, parrots, and a finely detailed dragonfly. Suffused with hope yet unafraid to mock his own credulity,...
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. — 96 p. — ISBN-10: 0547397097; ISBN-13: 978-0547397092. 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...
New York: Harcourt, 2005. — 80 p. — ISBN-10: 0151012148; ISBN-13: 978-0151012145. Over the past three decades, Simic's compact, often spooky poems of displacement, violence and anxiety have won him national acclaim (and a Pulitzer); for some readers, Simic's frightened children, intrepid shopkeepers and bleak fairy-tale atmospheres mark his work as late-blooming surrealism,...
New York: Ecco, 2013. — 384 p. — ISBN-10: 9780547928289; ISBN-13: 978-0547928289. For over fifty years, Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant and innovative poetic imagery, his sardonic wit, and a voice all his own. He has been awarded nearly every major literary prize for his poetry, including a Pulitzer and a MacArthur grant, in addition to serving as the...
New York: Knopf, 2022. — 96 p. — ISBN-10: 059353493X; ISBN-13: 978-0593534939. 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...
New York: Ecco, 2018. — 96 p. — ISBN-10: 0062661183; ISBN-13: 978-0062661180. The latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic hums with the liveliness of the writer’s pen. Scribbled in the Dark brings the poet’s signature sardonic sense of humor, piercing social insight, and haunting lyricism to diverse and richly imagined landscapes. Peopled by policemen, presidents, kids in...
Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2008. — 112 p. — ISBN: 978-0-15-603564-4 Here are sixty of Charles Simic's best-loved poems, collected to celebrate his appointment as the fifteenth poet laureate of the United States. Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary...
New York: Ecco, 1990. — 70 p. — ISBN-10: 0156135469; ISBN-13: 978-0156135467. While Simic's terse, enigmatic poems have always expressed metaphysical concerns, this volume's title might suggest he is moving in an overtly religious, even visionary, direction. This expectation is only partially fulfilled by the poems. They largely represent a further exploration of styles and...
New York: Ecco, 2015. — 352 p. — ISBN-10: 0062364715; ISBN-13: 978-0062364715. A collection of new and selected essays by the Pulitzer Prize–winner and former Poet Laureate. In addition to being one of America’s most famous and commended poets, Charles Simic is a prolific and talented essayist. The Life of Images brings together his best prose work written over twenty-five...
New York: Ecco, 2016. — 96 p. — ISBN-10: 0062364758; ISBN-13: 978-0062364753. From Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate Charles Simic comes a dazzling collection of poems as original, meditative, and humorous as the legendary poet himself. This latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic, one of America’s most celebrated poets, demonstrates his revered signature style...
Port Townsend, WA: Ausable Press, 2008. — 128 p. — ISBN-10: 1931337403; ISBN-13: 978-1931337403. The Monster Loves His Labyrinth offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind of the poet. Passionate, witty, tender, and curious, these notebook entries from the 2007 US Poet Laureate range from casual jottings to profound observations. Their subject is the vast array of ways in which...
New York: Ecco, 2006. — 193 p. — ISBN-10: 015603073X; ISBN-13: 978-0156030731. 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...
New York: Ecco, 1989. — 96 p. — ISBN-10: 0156983508; ISBN-13: 978-0156983501. 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...
New York: Ecco, 1996. — 96 p. — ISBN-10: 015600481X; ISBN-13: 978-0156004817. Simic's short, taut lines carve dark-edged images reminiscent of old folk tales. In this new collection, his 13th (The World Doesn't End earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990), he focuses on such folklore elements as chance, luck, faith and illusion at work in a quotidian world of cookouts,...
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