That Little Something: Poems - Rilegato

Simic, Charles

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0151013594 ISBN 13: 9780151013593

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008

Riassunto

In his eighteenth collection, Charles Simic, the superb poet of the vaguely ominous sound and the disturbing, potentially significant image, moves closer to the dark heart of history and human behavior.

Simic understands the strange interplay between ordinary life and extremes, between reality and imagination, and he writes with absolute purity about those contradictory but simultaneous states of being or feeling: "Everything about you / My life, is both / Make-believe and real."

A profoundly important poet for our time, and a stunning book.

SECRET HISTORY

Of the light in my room:

Its mood swings,

Dark-morning glooms,

Summer ecstasies.

 

Spider on the wall,

Lamp burning late,

Shoes left by the bed,

I'm your humble scribe.

 

Dust balls, simple souls

Conferring in the corner.

The pearl earring she lost,

Still to be found.

 

Silence of falling snow,

Night vanishing without trace,

Only to return.

I'm your humble scribe.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Charles Simic is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of our time. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for The World Doesn't End. He lives in New Hampshire.

Dalla quarta di copertina

"Few poets have been as influential - or as inimitable - as Charles Simic." --New York Times Book Review

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In his eighteenth collection, Charles Simic, the superb poet of the vaguely ominous sound and the disturbing, potentially significant image, moves closer to the dark heart of history and human behavior.

Simic understands the strange interplay between ordinary life and extremes, between reality and imagination, and he writes with absolute purity about those contradictory but simultaneous states of being or feeling: "Everything about you / My life, is both / Make-believe and real."

A profoundly important poet for our time delivers a stunning book.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0151013594
• ISBN 13: 9780151013593
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 73
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile