Charles Simic

Written over many years, this book is a collection of notebook entries by our current Poet Laureate.

Número 1 de la colección arre. Antología preparada por Martín López-Vega del poeta serboestadounidense Charles Simic. Poeta serbio-estadounidense y nuestro único poeta premio Pulitzer y laureado por la Biblioteca del Congreso de Estados Unidos, que no es poca cosa. Una de las voces más influyentes de la poesía actual. Tras más de cuarenta años de cuidadosa creación poética, Simic ha construido una obra plena en imaginación e ironía....

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-a mix of understated brilliance, wry melancholy, and sardonic wit. These seventy luminous poems range in subject from mortality to personal ads, from...

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.

In this latest collection of poems, Charles Simic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, brings us startling new visions of the haunted landscape that has been his oeuvre, where the surreal and the mundane, the sacred and profane, are indistinguishable, a world where "everything is teetering on the edge of everything/With a polite smile." A man waits at a bus stop for the love of his life, a woman (Lady Luck?) he's never met. The world's greatest...

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...

Charles Simic is widely recognized as one of America's leading poets. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Simic's Selected Poems, 1963-1983, was lauded as "easily the best volume of poetry published in 1985." In this newly expanded edition entitled Selected Early Poems, to which the author has added twenty-seven poems and extensively revised others, we are treated to Simic's terse style, incisive imagery, and often disturbing rendering of everyday experiences...