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My Noiseless Entourage

Poems

By Charles Simic

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| Hardcover | 9780151012145

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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 litContinue

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 and appealing poets of our time.

To Dreams

I'm still living at all the old addresses,
Wearing dark glasses even indoors,
On the hush-hush sharing my bed
With phantoms, visiting in the kitchen

After midnight to check the faucet.
I'm late for school, and when I get there
No one seems to recognize me.
I sit disowned, sequestered and withdrawn.

These small shops open only at night
Where I make my unobtrusive purchases,
These back-door movie houses in seedy neighborhoods
Still showing grainy films of my life,

The hero always full of extravagant hope
Losing it all in the end?-whatever it was-
Then walking out into the cold, disbelieving light
Waiting close-lipped at the exit.

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  • My Noiseless Entourage

    Much of Simic’s work sits in the space between irony, surrealism and the mainstream; My Noiseless Entourage is something different -- more personal and less ironic. Many postmodern poets have dispensed with lines and stanzas or use them in a way that ... (read full critics)

    bookslut published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

  • My Noiseless Entourage: Poems

    My Noiseless Entourage: Poems Charles Simic Harcourt Hardcover 80 pages April 2005 The title of Charles Simic's latest collection, My Noiseless Entourage, suggests the nature of this collection, shadowy thoughts that intrude, jostling the memory like ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 80 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0151012148
  • ISBN-13: 9780151012145
  • Publisher: Harcourt
  • Pub date: Apr 04, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1419 mm x 968 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
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