No Land In Sight
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Author |
: Charles Simic |
Publisher |
: Knopf |
Total Pages |
: 97 |
Release |
: 2022-08-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780593534939 |
ISBN-13 |
: 059353493X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis No Land in Sight 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 next Leading 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 monumental, he captures the fleeting moments of modern life—peering inside pawnshop windows, brushing shoulders with strangers on the street, and walking familiar cemetery rows—to uncover all the beauty and worry hiding in plain sight. As the poet reflects on a lifetime’s worth of pleasure and loss, he recalls instances when he “made excuses and hurried away,” and considers the way memory always trails just behind. No Land in Sight is a testament to all we leave in our wake and, simultaneously, all we hang on to: the passing minutes, the evening’s stillness, and the many lives we inhabit in dim thresholds and bright mornings alike.
Author |
: Charles Simic |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 83 |
Release |
: 2019-07-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062908483 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062908480 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Come Closer and Listen by : Charles Simic
An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent 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 experience. From poems pithy, wry, and cutting—“Time—that murderer/that no has caught yet”—to his layered reflections on everything from love to grief to the wonders of nature, from the story of St. Sebastian to that of a couple weeding side by side, Simic’s work continues to reveal to us an unmistakable voice in modern poetry. An innovator in form and a chronicler of both our interior lives and the people we are in the world, Simic remains one of our most important and lasting voices on the page.
Author |
: Charles Simic |
Publisher |
: Between the Lines Productions |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015056476396 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Charles Simic in Conversation with Michael Hulse by : Charles Simic
This well-respected interview series welcomes Charles Simic. The University of New Hampshire poet is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry. Recipient of numerous awards and prizes, Simic answers questio
Author |
: Charles Simic |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 78 |
Release |
: 2017-06-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062661197 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062661191 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Scribbled in the Dark 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 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.
Author |
: Charles Simic |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 66 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0156421828 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780156421829 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hotel Insomnia by : Charles Simic
Mixes the haunted world of the poet's East European memory with the American present in verses that fill the wee hours of the evening with angels, pigs, riddles, cemeteries, and dolls that smile
Author |
: Philip Judge |
Publisher |
: Gill & Macmillan Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 347 |
Release |
: 2017-07-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780717178766 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0717178765 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis In Sight of Yellow Mountain by : Philip Judge
'This is The Good Life meets A Year in Provence'. Sue Collins, The Nualas 'A luminous, funny and profound reading experience.' Sebastian Barry First, a dream of escaping the city... and then a century-old cottage to match the dream. Moving to a small village in the heart of the countryside was the beginning of a new life for Philip Judge and his Beloved – the beginning of life In Sight of Yellow Mountain. Judge describes the season-by-season charms and frustrations that he, his Beloved, and eventually, his two growing boys experience as they adapt to life in the countryside. There are highs and lows. Wellies and tweeds are bought. Vegetable patches cultivated. Lambs are born, calves die. There is weather: good and bad; health and happiness; illness and sadness. The city slicker fails miserably at Name That Grain! and makes many faux pas along the way, but ultimately, this is the story of one man, and his growing family, experiencing the pleasure that is finding home.
Author |
: D. Nurkse |
Publisher |
: Knopf |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2022-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780593321409 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0593321405 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Country of Strangers by : D. Nurkse
In an illuminating collection of selected poems over thirty-five years, one of our most essential American poets casts a clear eye on our politics, our places, and our heart’s hidden stories. D. Nurkse’s immigrant parents met on a boat out of Europe in 1940; he was a child of the generation whose anxieties were forged in the shadow of Hiroshima and the aftermath of WWII. His poems extend that child’s dignified ignorance into an open encounter with the cataclysms of the latter twentieth century and with family structures. Whispers of the old country of Estonia provide the backdrop for the boy’s baseballs, thrown in the fading twilight of the 1950s (“Secretly, I was proudest of my skill / at standing alone in the darkness”). The young man explores sexual passion and the arrival of a child in a young marriage (“We showed her daylight in our cupped hands”), while the mature poet writes of loneliness and community in our cities (“but on the streets / there was no one”), and the urgent need for us to keep expressing our will as citizens. Throughout this matchless career, over eleven books, Nurkse has crafted visceral lines that celebrate the fragility of what simply exists—birdsong, moonrise, illness, water towers—and the complexity of human perception, our stumble forward through it toward understanding.
Author |
: Charles Simic |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2015-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062364722 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062364723 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life of Images 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 subjects ranging from literary criticism to philosophy, photography to Simic’s childhood in a war-torn country. Culled from five collections, each work demonstrates the qualities that make Simic’s poetry so brilliant yet accessible. Whether he is revealing the influence of literature on his childhood development, pondering the relationship between food and comfort, or elegizing the pull to return to a homeland that no longer exists, the legendary poet shares his distinctive take on the world and offers an intimate look into his remarkable mind.
Author |
: Edward Hirsch |
Publisher |
: Knopf |
Total Pages |
: 81 |
Release |
: 2020-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780525657798 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0525657797 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stranger by Night by : Edward Hirsch
In his seventieth year, the award-winning poet looks back on what was and accepts what is, in a deeply moving and beautiful sequence about what sustains him. Beginning with "My Friends Don't Get Buried," the lament of a delinquent mourner as his friends have begun to die, and ending with the plaintive note to self "don't write elegies/anymore," Edward Hirsch takes us backward through the decades in these memory poems of startling immediacy. He recalls the black dress a lover wore when he couldn't yet know the tragedy of her burning spirit; the radiance of an autumn day in Detroit when his students smoked outside, passionately discussing Shelley; the day he got off late from a railyard shift and missed an antiwar demonstration. There are direct and indirect elegies to lost contemporaries like Mark Strand, William Meredith, and, most especially, his longtime compatriot Philip Levine, whom he honors in several poems about daily work in the late midcentury Midwest. As the poet ages and begins to lose his peripheral vision, the world is "stranger by night," but these elegant, heart-stirring poems shed light on a lifetime that inevitably contains both sorrow and joy.
Author |
: Elisa New |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 067453462X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674534629 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Line's Eye by : Elisa New
Is American vision implicitly possessive, as a generation of critics contends? By viewing the American poetic tradition through the prism of pragmatism, Elisa New contests this claim. A new reading of how poetry "sees," her work is a passionate defense of the power of the poem, the ethics of perception, and the broader possibilities of American sight. American poems see more fully, and less invasively, than accounts of American literature as an inscription of imperial national ideology would allow. Moreover, New argues, their ways of seeing draw on, and develop, a vigorous mode of national representation alternative to the appropriative sort found in the quintessential American genre of encounter, the romance. Grounding her readings of Dickinson, Frost, Moore, and Williams in foundational texts by Edwards, Jefferson, Audubon, and Thoreau, New shows how varieties of attentiveness and solicitude cultivated in the early literature are realized in later poetry. She then discloses how these ideas infuse the philosophical notions about pragmatic experience codified by Emerson, James, and Dewey. As these philosophers insisted, and as New's readings prove, art is where the experience of experience can be had: to read, as to write, a poem is to let the line guide one's way.