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Scribbled in the Dark
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate, a collection of elegiac, irreverent new poems—an American master at the height of his talent

 The 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 landscapes. Peopled by policemen, presidents, kids in Halloween masks, a fortune-teller, a fly on the wall of the poet’s kitchen; set on crowded New York streets, on park benches, and under darkened skies; the pages within toy with the end of the world and its infinity. Simic continues to be an imitable voice in modern American poetry and one of its finest chroniclers of the human condition.

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Scribbled in the Dark
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate, a collection of elegiac, irreverent new poems—an American master at the height of his talent

 The 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 landscapes. Peopled by policemen, presidents, kids in Halloween masks, a fortune-teller, a fly on the wall of the poet’s kitchen; set on crowded New York streets, on park benches, and under darkened skies; the pages within toy with the end of the world and its infinity. Simic continues to be an imitable voice in modern American poetry and one of its finest chroniclers of the human condition.

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Scribbled in the Dark

Scribbled in the Dark

by Charles Simic
Scribbled in the Dark

Scribbled in the Dark

by Charles Simic

Overview

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate, a collection of elegiac, irreverent new poems—an American master at the height of his talent

 The 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 landscapes. Peopled by policemen, presidents, kids in Halloween masks, a fortune-teller, a fly on the wall of the poet’s kitchen; set on crowded New York streets, on park benches, and under darkened skies; the pages within toy with the end of the world and its infinity. Simic continues to be an imitable voice in modern American poetry and one of its finest chroniclers of the human condition.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062661180
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 06/05/2018
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 96
Sales rank: 290,960
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Charles Simic was a poet, essayist, and translator who was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1954. He published more than twenty books of poetry, in addition to a memoir and numerous books of translations for which he received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Wallace Stevens Award. In 2007, he served as poet laureate of the United States. He was a distinguished visiting writer at New York University and professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, where he taught since 1973. He died in January 2023 at the age of eighty-four.

Table of Contents

I

Dark Night's Fly Catcher 3

Seeing Things 4

At The Vacancy Sign 5

That Elusive Something 6

Fair-Weather Friends 7

Uninvited Guest 8

All Gone Into The Dark 9

The Week 10

To Boredom 11

Fish Out Of Water 12

Illegible Scribble 13

History 14

Signs Of The Times 15

In The Courtroom 16

Missed Chance 17

II

January 21

In Wonder 22

In The Snow 23

Ancient Combatant 24

The Night and The Cold 25

All Things In Precipitous Decline 26

The Cricket On My Pillow 27

Winter Fly 28

Bare Trees 29

Roadhouse 30

Stray Hen 31

The White Cat 32

The One Who Disappeared 33

The Message 34

Birds Know 35

III

The Movie 39

Belladonna 40

On Cloud Nine 41

Swept Away 42

My Goddess 43

The Lucky Couple 44

Dead Sure 45

The Lover 46

The Saint 47

The Art Of Happiness 48

In Someone's Backyard 49

Cherry Pie 50

A Day Came 51

Haunted House 52

The Blizzard 53

IV

The Infinite 57

Last Bet For The Night 58

Description 59

Mystery Theater 60

Shadow On The Wall 61

Looking For A Place To Hide 62

Scribbled In The Dark 63

In The Greek Church 64

The Masque 65

Many A Holy Man 66

The Lifeboat 67

Past The Cemetery 68

Star Atlas 69

Night Owls 71

At Tender Mercy 72

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