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  | | The Voice at 3(1st Edition) 00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems by Charles Simic Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2006 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603073-1, ISBN: 0-15-603073-X "Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the seemingly mundane minutiae of contemporary American culture, Simic matches meditations on spiritual concerns and the weight of history with a nimble wit, shifting effortlessly to ..." |
 | | A Fly in the Soup Memoirs (Poets On Poetry) by Charles Simic Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-08909-3, ISBN: 0-472-08909-9 "A Fly in the Soup is a book of memoirs. Charles Simic was born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and spent his childhood in a city bombed by the Nazis in 1941 and then by the Allies in 1944. He was jailed with his mother after the war for trying to flee what was by then a communist country. He managed to emigrate in 1953, first to Paris and then a year later to the United States. He lived in New York, completed his high school education ..." |
 | | My Noiseless Entourage Poems [Signed First Edition] by Charles Simic Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2005 by Harcourt, Inc. Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-15-101214-5, ISBN: 0-15-101214-8 "This new collection of poems from Charles Simic demonstrates once again his wit, moral acuity, and brilliant use of imagery. His settings are a farmhouse porch, a used-clothing store, empty station platforms; his subjects love, futility, and the sense of an individual life lived among a crowd of literal and imaginary presences. Both sharp and sympathetic, the poems of this collection confirm Simic's place as one of the most important a ..." |
 | | A Wake for the Living Poems (Bilingual Edition) by Charles Simic, Radmila. Lazic, Dogan Gürpinar Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2003 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-390-2, ISBN: 1-55597-390-6 "Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Simic introduces and translates the poems of Serbian feminist, activist, and writer Radmila LazicDead-born will be your wishes.Your every hope will be a widow.And as for love, there won't be enoughTo spread on a slice of bread. --from "Twilight Metaphysics"Translated and introduced with the surrealist wit that is Charles Simic's signature, A Wake for the Living offers American readers, for the first time in ..." |
 | | Dime-Store Alchemy The Art of Joseph Cornell (New York Review Books Classics) by Charles Simic, Joseph Cornell Hardcover, 116 Pages, Published 2006 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-170-7, ISBN: 1-59017-170-5 "In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic refects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.In a work that is in various degrees biography, criticism, and sheer poetry, Simic tells the story of Cornell’s life and illuminates the hermetic mysterie ..." |
 | | New and Selected Poems(Reprint) by Professor Michael Ryan, Charles Simic Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2005 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-618-61941-2, ISBN: 0-618-61941-0 "Ryan is a scrupulously observant poet with a gift for going for the jugular . . . His work is finely honed, provocative, questing, and humane.â - Edward Hirsch, Washington Post Book WorldMichael Ryanâs first collection in fifteen years shows the acclaimed poet at the height of his powers. Highlighting the wit and passion displayed throughout his career, Ryanâs latest work comprises fifty-seven poems from three award-winning volum ..." |
 | | Darkness Spoken The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann (German Edition) by Ingeborg Bachmann, Peter Filkins, Charles Simic Paperback, 688 Pages, Published 2005 by Zephyr Press ISBN-13: 978-0-939010-84-4, ISBN: 0-939010-84-4 ""Darkness Spoken" gathers together Ingeborg Bachmann's two celebrated books of poetry, as well as early and late poems not collected in book form, over 100 of them appearing in English for the first time, as well as 25 poems never before published in German. Bachmann is considered one of the most important poets to emerge in postwar German letters, and this volume represents the largest collection available in English translation. Influ ..." |
 | | The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello, William Weaver, Charles Simic, Trans. Arthur Livingston Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2004 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-115-8, ISBN: 1-59017-115-2 "Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life―only to find that this new existence is as insufferable as the old one. But when he returns to the world he left behind, it's too late: his job is gone, his wife has remarried ..." |
 | | Isn't It Romantic(1st Edition) 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets by Brett Fletcher Lauer, Aimee Kelley, Charles Simic, Aimme Kelley, Wave Books Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2004 by Wave Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9746353-1-6, ISBN: 0-9746353-1-6 "Written by 100 American poets, "Isn't It Romantic" offers an engaging look at how contemporary poets respond afresh to the well-trammeled territory of the love poem. Award-winning poets from across the country lend their voices to this important document of contemporary poetry. The book also features a bonus full-length audio CD of love songs by independent recording artists.Anthology Contributors include: Karen Volkman, Joe Wenderoth, ..." |
 | | The Gunter Grass Reader(1st Edition) by Helmut Frielinghaus, Gunter Grass, Charles Simic, William Martin Sir, Philip Boehm, Leslie A. Willson, Jonathan Safran-Foer, GNter Grass, GNter Grass, Ralph Manheim Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2004 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-15-602992-6, ISBN: 0-15-602992-8 "Selected from the vast range of his work, the writings included in this anthology trace Gunter Grass's development as a writer, and with it the history of a nation coming to terms with its past. Excerpts from Grass's major novels-from The Tin Drum to Crabwalk-are included, as are numerous short fictions, essays, and poems, many of which have never appeared before in English. Grass's gifts as an observer of and participant in the social ..." |
 | | Poets on Poetry Ser. Memory Piano by Charles Simic Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-09940-5, ISBN: 0-472-09940-X "The Roman centurions in their drunkenness do not notice the switch and crucify the wrong man. The Houses of Belgrade (Hodocasce Arsenija Njegovana, 1970) , Pekic's next novel, has a far more conventional narrative.2 It tells the story of a well-to-do house builder and landlord who shuts himself inside his apartment on March 27, 1941, the day street demonstrations in Belgrade overthrew the government, which had signed a nonaggressio ..." |
 | | Saul Steinberg(1st Edition) Illuminations by Joel Smith, Charles Simic, Saul Steinberg, Pierpont Morgan Library Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Yale University Press Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11586-4, ISBN: 0-300-11586-5 "Best known for his barbed and brilliant art for The New Yorker, Saul Steinberg (1914–1999) did much more. He executed public murals, designed fabrics and stage sets, was an inventive collagist and printmaker, and turned his magic touch to the fields of painting, sculpture, advertising, and even wartime propaganda. This is the first comprehensive look at Steinberg’s extraordinary contribution to 20th-century art, which was that of a mode ..." |
 | | Emergence of Memory(1st Edition) Conversations With W.G. Sebald by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Winfried Georg Sebald, Charles Simic, Ruth Franklin Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2007 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-785-5, ISBN: 1-58322-785-7 "“The novelist and translator Lynne Sharon Schwartz has carefully rendered these subtle currents of belief and sensibility, moving always beneath an airy conversational style, in dexterous prose.”—Virginia Quarterly Review on A Place to Live and other selected essays by Natalia GinzburgWhen German author W.G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just ..." |
 | | The Voice At 3 00 A. M. : Selected Late and New Poems by Charles Simic Hardcover, Published 2006 by Harvest Books ISBN-13: 978-0-544-31319-4, ISBN: 0-544-31319-4 |
 | | Memory Piano (Poets on Poetry) by Charles Simic Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-06940-8, ISBN: 0-472-06940-3 "A volume in the Poets on Poetry series. Poets on Poetry collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.An eclectic array of essays, reviews, and memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles SimicMemory Piano is the latest contribution to the Poets on Poetry series from the brilliant and prolific Charles Simic. Th ..." |
 | | The Voice at 3 00 A. M. : Selected Late and New Poems by Charles Simic 192 Pages, Published 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-547-54632-2, ISBN: 0-547-54632-7 "Long hours of the night; St. John of the Cross And Blaise Pascal the cops in a patrol car. Do you have a favorite black hole in heaven? The fleeting moments know no care. Every day I discover serious new obstacles To my guaranteed pursuit of happiness. There was a funeral in my coffee cup tonight. I'm not just any black flea on your ass! I shouted to every god and devil I could think of. Infinity's ink has spilled over me And left ..." |
 | | Stories From The Blue Moon Cafe IV(1st Edition) SIGNED by Sonny Brewer, John Boyer, Rick Bragg, Andrea Hollander Budy, David E. Campbell, Marshall Chapman, Ryan Clark, Jim Dees, Ellen Douglas, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Robert St. John, Charles Simic, Daniel Wallace, Et Al . Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 2005 by Macadam/Cage ISBN-13: 978-1-59692-142-9, ISBN: 1-59692-142-0 "Following the success of 'Stories from the Blue Moon Café' volumes I, II, and III, we are pleased to serve up another hearty helping of Southern writing in this fourth edition. Offering the best in contemporary Southern fiction, from a tale inspired by a sculpture to another written by a popular Nashville singer and songwriter, along with essays by Pulitzer Prize winners and poems by up-and-comers, 'Stories from the Blue Moon Café IV' p ..." |
 | | Aunt Lettuce, I Want to Peek Under Your Skirt by Charles Simic, Howie Michels Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2005 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-58234-461-4, ISBN: 1-58234-461-2 "This provocative, playful collaboration between Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Simic and noted illustrator Michels is a saucy Valentine's treat.Charles Simic, a leading light in the world of poetry, here turns his attention-and imagination!-to Eros. Sensual and skillfully wrought, Simic's erotic poems are electrified by brilliantly graphic and lush illustrations by Howie Michels. Excerpts of this collaboration were featured in Tin House's ..." |
 | | My Noiseless Entourage Poems by Charles Simic 80 Pages, Published 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-547-56381-7, ISBN: 0-547-56381-7 "Poems Charles Simic. CONTENTS I Description of a Lost Thing 3 Shading Exercise 4 Self-Portrait in Bed j To Dreams 6 The Gamblers Upstairs 7 Calamity Crier 8 The Alarm 9 My Noiseless Entourage 10 Fabulous Species and Landscapes ..." |
 | | New York Essays (CANCELLED) by Charles Simic Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-100668-7, ISBN: 0-15-100668-7 |
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