Bücher von Charles Simic

Respektlos, scharfsinnig und voll abgründigem Witz - ein neuer Gedichtband von Charles SimicCharles Simic ist einer der großen Lyriker unserer Zeit und einer der feinfühligsten Chronisten des Menschseins. Seine Dichtung ist einzigartig in ihrer Verbindung von Witz und Melancholie, ihrer tiefen Empathie, die selbst der Fliege gilt: "In einem Palast solltest du leben wie ein König / Und nicht auf meiner Küchenwand zittern." Geboren in einem Land, das es nicht mehr gibt, hat es den Dichter im Leben herumgetrieben und er lernte die Gerechtigkeit als "eine blinde Dame" kennen. Was er dabei nie verloren hat, ist die Lust durch die Straßen zu streifen, um das gewöhnliche Leben zu beobachten. Jedes Bild ist ein "kleines Universum für sich". Dieser Band versammelt Simics schönste Gedichte der letzten Jahre.

That Little Something is the superb eighteenth collection from one of America's most vital and honored poets. Over the course of his singular career, Charles Simic has won nearly every accolade, including the Pulitzer Prize, and he served as the poet laureate of the United States from 2007 to 2008.His wry humor and darkly illuminating vision are on full display here as he moves close to the dark ironies of history and human experience. Simic understands the strange interplay between the ordinary and the odd, between reality and imagination. That Little Something is a stunning collection from "not only one of the most prolific poets but also one of the most distinctive, accessible, and enjoyable" (New York Times Book Review).

The personal notebooks of our new Poet Laureate.

Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the seemingly mundane minutiae of contemporary American culture, Simic matches meditations on spiritual concerns and the weight of history with a nimble wit, shifting effortlessly to moments of clear vision and intense poetic revelation. Chosen as one of the New York Library's 25 Books to Remember for 2003, The Voice at 3:00 A. M. was also nominated for a National Book Award. The recipient of many prizes, Simic most recently received Canada's Griffin Prize. The poems in this collection--spanning two decades of his work--present a rich and varied survey of a remarkable lyrical journey.In the StreetBeauty, dark goddess,We met and partedAs though we parted not.Like two stopped watchesIn a dusty store window,One golden morning of time.

In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and american present-a world of his own creation, one always full of luminous surprise. "Simic writes so simply that his words fall like drops of water, but they ripple outward to evoke an ominous and numinous world” (Washington Post Book World).

Hamlet's ghost wandering the halls of a Vegas motel, a street corner ventriloquist using passersby as dummies, and Jesus panhandling in a weed-infested Eden are just a few of the startling conceits Simic unleashes in this collection. ?Few contemporary poets have been as influential-or inimitable-as Charles Simic? (New York Times Book Review).

Simic puts chirping birds, sex, and happiness into a world of broken windows, shivering trees, soldiers, lone dogs, the homeless of the city, and a God still making up his mind. ?Provocative...a tantalizing, beautiful fusion of visions? (Bloomsbury Review).

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.

First published in 1976, this astonishing anthology from two U.S. Poet Laureates, Charles Simic and Mark Strand, compiles a selection of the finest translated literature of the time, showcasing the then-little-known writers who had a profound influence on the current generation of poets.