Book

Simic, Charles, 1938-2023

Hotel insomnia / Charles Simic.

1st ed.

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1992.

ix, 66 pages ; 21 cm

In this new volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning Charles Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. With empty offices and dolls that smile. With the sound of bare feet upstairs and a single kiss before the shadows converge. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and American present. It is a world of his own creation, one always full of luminous surprise.

Poetry.

American poetry.

Poetry.

Evening Chess -- The Congress of the Insomniacs -- Matches -- The City -- The Infinite -- Obscure Beginnings -- Stub of a Red Pencil -- The Prodigal -- Hotel Insomnia -- Tragic Architecture -- Makers of Labyrinths -- The Inanimate Object -- Outside Biaggi's Funeral Home -- The Tiger -- Miss Nostradamus -- Place at the Outskirts -- Clouds Gathering -- Folk Songs -- War -- A Book Full of Pictures -- Evening Walk -- Hotel Starry Sky -- Caged Fortuneteller -- Country Lunch -- To Think Clearly -- Poem -- Quick Eats -- Dreamsville -- The Chair -- Missing Child -- The Puppet Show -- Many Zeros -- True History -- Marina's Epic -- Figure in the Landscape -- At the Vacancy Sign -- Lost Glove -- Spring -- Story of My Luck -- Love Worker -- Romantic Sonnet -- Dandelions -- Some Nights -- Beauty -- Street Scene -- Early Morning in July -- My Quarrel with the Infinite -- Pyramids and Sphinxes -- The Absent Spider -- The Artist -- The Old World -- Country Fair.

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