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That little something : poems / Charles Simic.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Orlando : Harcourt, c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: [73] p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0151013594
  • 9780151013593
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Contents:
Walking -- That little something -- The elevator is out of order -- Night clerk in a roach motel -- Souvenirs of Hell -- Dramatic evenings -- Department of Complaints -- To boredom -- Death's book of jokes -- Fiordiligi -- Devil and Eve -- The late game -- Waiting for the sun to set -- Murky memories -- House of cards -- Impersonator of blank walls -- Aunt Dinah sailed to China -- Doubles -- To laziness -- The great disappearing act -- Summer dawn -- Gourmets of tragedies -- Listen -- Encyclopedia of horror -- Sunday -- Dance of the macabre mice -- Flying horses -- In the heat of the night -- Night watchman -- The lights are on everywhere -- Memories of the future -- Come winter -- Those who clean after -- In the junk store -- Madmen are running the world -- Late-night chat -- Clouds -- In the afternoon -- One wing of the museum -- Prophesy -- Dead reckoning -- Metaphysics Anonymous -- High windows -- Ghost ship -- Wonders of the invisible world -- Secret history -- Wire hangers -- To the reader -- The ice cubes are on fire -- Labor and capital -- The blur -- The bather -- Crickets -- Eternities -- Eternity's orphans.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 811.6 S589 Available 33111005739392
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Walking -- That little something -- The elevator is out of order -- Night clerk in a roach motel -- Souvenirs of Hell -- Dramatic evenings -- Department of Complaints -- To boredom -- Death's book of jokes -- Fiordiligi -- Devil and Eve -- The late game -- Waiting for the sun to set -- Murky memories -- House of cards -- Impersonator of blank walls -- Aunt Dinah sailed to China -- Doubles -- To laziness -- The great disappearing act -- Summer dawn -- Gourmets of tragedies -- Listen -- Encyclopedia of horror -- Sunday -- Dance of the macabre mice -- Flying horses -- In the heat of the night -- Night watchman -- The lights are on everywhere -- Memories of the future -- Come winter -- Those who clean after -- In the junk store -- Madmen are running the world -- Late-night chat -- Clouds -- In the afternoon -- One wing of the museum -- Prophesy -- Dead reckoning -- Metaphysics Anonymous -- High windows -- Ghost ship -- Wonders of the invisible world -- Secret history -- Wire hangers -- To the reader -- The ice cubes are on fire -- Labor and capital -- The blur -- The bather -- Crickets -- Eternities -- Eternity's orphans.

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