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  • Master of Disguises

    Poems

    by Charles Simic ...
    "This 20th collection from the former U.S. poet laureate departs only by degrees from his poems of earlier decades—but it could just be his best book." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)In his first volume of poetry since his tenure as poet laureate, Charles Simic shows he is at the height of his poetic powers. These new poems mine the rich strain of inscrutability in ordinary life, until it is ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Doesn't End

    A Poetry Collection

    by Charles Simic ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry“One of the truly imaginative writers of our time.” —Los Angles Times Book ReviewYou never know what Charles Simic is up to until you reach the end of the line or the bottom of the paragraph. Waiting for you might be a kiss. Or a bludgeon. A smile at the absurdities of society, or a wistful, grim memory of World War II.He puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Life of Images

    Selected Prose

    by Charles Simic ...
    A collection of new and selected essays by the Pulitzer Prize–winner and former Poet Laureate.In addition to being one of America’s most famous and commended poets, Charles Simic is a prolific and talented essayist. The Life of Images brings together his best prose work written over twenty-five years.A blend of the straightforward, the wry, and the hopeful, the essays in The Life of Images explore ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Walking The Black Cat

    by Charles Simic ...
    In his thirteenth collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic melds folklore and black magic with everyday life.Hamlet’s ghost wandering the halls of a Vegas motel, a street corner ventriloquist using passersby as dummies, and Jesus panhandling in a weed-infested Eden are just a few of the startling conceits Simic unleashes in this collection.“Few contemporary poets have been as ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • No Land in Sight

    Poems

    by Charles Simic ...
    From one of America's most beloved poets, a piercing new collection reflecting on the characters and encounters that haunt us through this life and into the nextLeading us into a city stirring with gravediggers and beggars, lovers and dogs, Charles Simic returns with a brilliant collection full of his singular wit, dark humor, and tenderheartedness. In poems that are often as spare as they are ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • A Fly in the Soup

    Memoirs

    by Charles Simic ...
    Series series Poets On Poetry
    In this evocative memoir by one of America's most revered contemporary poets, Charles Simic recounts his journey from a childhood in war-torn Yugoslavia to his coming-of-age experiences as a young bohemian in New York City, then as a reluctant draftee in the United States Army. Simic’s early years in Belgrade, a city bombed first by the Nazis in 1941 and then by the Allies in 1944, recall memories ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Come Closer and Listen

    New Poems

    by Charles Simic ...
    An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles SimicIrreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the latest work from one of our most beloved poets. With his trademark sense of humor, open-hearted empathy, and perceptive vision, Charles Simic roots his poetry in the ordinary world while still taking in the wide sweep of the human ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Lunatic

    Poems

    by Charles Simic ...
    From Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate Charles Simic comes a dazzling collection of poems as original, meditative, and humorous as the legendary poet himself.This latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic, one of America’s most celebrated poets, demonstrates his revered signature style—a mix of understated brilliance, wry melancholy, and sardonic wit. These seventy luminous poems ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Scribbled in the Dark

    Poems

    by Charles Simic ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate, a collection of elegiac, irreverent new poems—an American master at the height of his talentThe latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic hums with the liveliness of the writer’s pen. Scribbled in the Dark brings the poet’s signature sardonic sense of humor, piercing social insight, and haunting lyricism to diverse and richly imagined ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Confessions of a Poet Laureate

    by Charles Simic ...
    A NEW YORK REVIEW E-BOOK ORIGINALAs former U.S. poet laureate Charles Simic has said, the secret to our identities lies not in grand events, but in the parentheses between events--and in these brief essays, we get a taste of this great poet's parenthetical observations and recollections. He takes us from his rattling house on a stormy New Hampshire night, to a park bench in Washington Square where ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Monster Loves His Labyrinth

    by Charles Simic ...
    “Nabokovian in his caustic charm and sexy intelligence, Simic perceives the mythic in the mundane and pinpoints the perpetual suffering that infuses human life with both agony and bliss. . . . And he is the master of juxtaposition, lining up the unlikeliest of pairings and contrasts as he explores the nexuses of madness and prophecy, hell and paradise, lust and death.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist"As ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Night Picnic

    Poems

    by Charles Simic ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet "illuminates the shadow side of life in poems as perfectly formed and directed as the beam of a flashlight" ( Booklist).The poems in Charles Simic's new collection evoke a variety of settings and images, from New York City to small New England towns; from crowds spilling onto the sidewalk on a hot summer night to an abandoned wooden church and a car graveyard ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus