Selected Poems, 1963-1983 - Softcover

Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, this collection represents what many experts feel is Charles Simic's finest work. This expanded edition contains 33 revisions of many of the original collection's poems. Simic's imagery and meaning rely heavily and beautifully on line breaks and their rhythm. His phrases create their own separate thoughts between line breaks, easing the music of the poem into a slower, contemplative pace despite the topic: "Because I am the bullet / that has gone through everyone already / I thought of you long before you thought of me" (from "What the White Had to Say"). Simic lends clarity to that which is otherwise complex.

Animal Acts
Austerities
Autumn Air
Ax
Baby Pictures Of Famous Dictators
Ballad
The Ballad Of The Wheel
Bedtime Story
Begotten Of The Spleen
Bestiary For The Fingers Of My Right Hand
The Bird
Breasts
Brooms
Butcher Shop
Charles Simic
Charon's Cosmology
The Chicken Without A Head
The Childhood Of Parmenides
Chorus For One Voice
Classic Ballroom Dances
The Cold
Cold Blue Tinge
Concerning My Neighbors, The Hittites
Crows
A Day Marked With A Small White Stone
December Trees
Description
Dismantling The Silence
Drawing The Triangle
Drawn To Perspective
East European Cooking
Elegy
Elementary Cosmogony
Empire Of Dreams
Eraser
Errata
Euclid Avenue
Evening
An Evening With The Master
Explorers
Eyes Fastened With Pins
A Fall Day
Fear
February
Figuring
Forest Birds
Fork
Furniture Mover
Gallows Etiquette
The Game
Gravity
The Great Horned Owl
Great Infirmities
Grocery
Happy End
Harsh Climate
The Healer
Help Wanted
History
History Book
Hurricane Season
In Midsummer Quiet
Inheritance
The Inner Man
Interlude
Invention Of Nothing
Knife
A Landscape With Crutches
The Lesson
The Little Tear-gland That Says
Madonnas Touched Up With A Goatee
The Man
Marching
Midpoint
My Shoes
My Weariness Of Epic Proportions
Navigator
Northern Exposure
Note
Note Slipped Under A Door
Nursery Rhyme
Old Couple
Old Mountain Road
The Partial Explanation
Pastoral
Peaceful Kingdom
Peaceful Trees
Piety
The Pillow
Poem
Poem
Poem Without A Title
The Point
Position Without A Magnitude
Primer
The Prisoner
Prodigy
Psalm
A Quiet Talk With Oneself
Rosalia
Rough Outline
Rural Delivery
School For Dark Thoughts
Shaving At Night
Shirt
Solitude
Solving The Riddle
Spoon
Spoons With Realistic Dead Flies On Them
Stone
The Stream
Strictly Bucolic
A Suitcase Strapped With A Rope
Summer Morning
The Summons
Tapestry
The Terms
Thus
The Tomb Of Stephane Mallarme
Toy Factory
Travelling
Travelling Slaughterhouse
Trees At Night
Two Riddles
The Variant
A Wall
Watch Repair
Watermelons
The Way It Is
What The White Had To Say
Whispers In The Next Room
White: 1
White: 2
Window Washer
Winter Night
The Writings Of The Mystics
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ