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Simic, Charles, 1938-2023 author.

Sixty poems / Charles Simic.

1st ed.

Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, ©2007.

99 pages ; 21 cm

Gathers sixty poems from nine of Charles Simic's collections spanning 1986-2005, which explore themes in history, spirituality, and American culture.

Poetry -- Collections.

Poetry.

Poems. Selections

60 poems

"A Harvest original."

From Unending blues. Toward nightfall -- Against whatever it is that's encroaching -- From The book of gods and devils. St. Thomas Aquinas -- Factory -- Shelley -- The devils -- The white room -- The big war -- Paradise -- In the library -- From Hotel Insomnia. The prodigal -- Hotel Insomnia -- The tiger -- A book full of pictures -- Evening walk -- Romantic sonnet -- The old world -- Country fair -- From a Wedding in hell. Paradise motel -- The clocks of the dead -- Leaves -- Transport -- Crazy about her shrimp -- Reading history -- Empires -- Mystics -- Via de Tritone -- The secret -- From Walking the black cat. Mirrors at 4 A.M. -- Cameo appearance -- What the gypsies told my grandmother while she was still a young girl -- Little unwritten book -- Slaughterhouse flies -- An address with exclamation points -- Entertaining the canary -- Ghosts -- At the cookout -- Club Midnight -- Pastoral harpisichord -- Have you met Miss Jones? -- From Jackstraws. The soul has many brides -- Mummy's curse -- The common insects of North America -- The toy -- From Night picnic. Unmade beds -- The one to worry about -- Sunday papers -- The altar -- My father attributed immortality to waiters -- The lives of the alchemists -- From The voice at 3:00 A.M. Grayheaded schoolchildren -- Serving time -- Late September -- From My noiseless entourage. Self-portrait in bed -- To dreams -- My noiseless entourage -- Description of a lost thing -- My turn to confess -- In the planetarium -- Pigeons at dawn.

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