Charles Simic

Come Closer and Listen

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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.
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23 printed pages
Publication year
2019
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Quotes

  • michihas quoted3 years ago
    The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
    Time--that murderer

    No one has caught yet
  • michihas quoted3 years ago
    O Great Starry Sky
    Where our thoughts go

    Like door-to-door Bible salesmen,

    Only to have the doors

    Slammed into their faces.
  • michihas quoted3 years ago
    Among My Late Visitors
    There is also a cow

    Whose eyes the soldiers

    Took out with a knife

    And lit straw under its tail

    So it would run blind

    Over a minefield

    And thereafter into my head

    From time to time

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