That Little Something: Poems

Simic, Charles

ISBN 10: 0151013594 / ISBN 13: 9780151013593

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008

About this Item

Fine hardcover first edition, first printing with complete letter line. Prior ownership signature of poet William Heyen under the DJ front fold. DJ is complete and Fine. This copy is tight, bright, and square.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: That Little Something: Poems
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151013594
• ISBN 13: 9780151013593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

In his eighteenth collection, Charles Simic, the superb poet of the vaguely ominous sound and the disturbing, potentially significant image, moves closer to the dark heart of history and human behavior.

Simic understands the strange interplay between ordinary life and extremes, between reality and imagination, and he writes with absolute purity about those contradictory but simultaneous states of being or feeling: "Everything about you / My life, is both / Make-believe and real."

A profoundly important poet for our time, and a stunning book.

SECRET HISTORY

Of the light in my room:

Its mood swings,

Dark-morning glooms,

Summer ecstasies.

 

Spider on the wall,

Lamp burning late,

Shoes left by the bed,

I'm your humble scribe.

 

Dust balls, simple souls

Conferring in the corner.

The pearl earring she lost,

Still to be found.

 

Silence of falling snow,

Night vanishing without trace,

Only to return.

I'm your humble scribe.

About the Author

Charles Simic is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of our time. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for The World Doesn't End. He lives in New Hampshire.