| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
65 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
I. Description of a lost thing -- Shading exercise -- Self-portrait in bed -- To dreams -- The gamblers upstairs -- Calamity crier -- The alarm -- My noiseless entourage -- Fabulous species and landscapes -- Used clothing store -- The centuries -- Voyage to Cythera -- II. Used book store -- Hitchhikers -- Graveyard on a hill -- The world runs on futility -- Battling grays -- Sunlight -- The birdie -- Minds roaming -- Cockroach salon -- Midnight feast -- One chair -- Insomnia's cricket -- Talk radio -- III. My turn to confess -- The hermetical and alchemical writings of Paracelsus -- On the farm -- I see lots of sticks on the ground -- Everybody had lost track of time -- Brethren -- Ask your astrologer -- Kazoo wedding -- Snowy morning blues -- To fate -- Slurred words -- Meeting the captain -- Sweetest -- Leaves at night -- IV. Starlings in a tree at dusk -- The headline -- The tragic sense of life -- The role of insomnia in history -- In the planetarium -- In the morning half-awake -- The absentee landlord -- He heard with his dead ear -- December 21 -- My wife lifts a finger to her lips -- Our old neighbor -- Pigeons at dawn. |
| Summary |
"My Noiseless Entourage is haunted by marooned, wordless individuals, but also by a sense of indecipherable, constant chatter, the murmuring on the other side of the wall. Charles Simic illuminates the slow, distracted quality of rural life, and the paranoia, the suspicions of city-dwellers. An old man sitting in his backyard with a rope in his hand. A flock of spooked starlings that seem to have heard something no one else has. The lodger no one has ever seen, drawing her bath upstairs. The poet as a dog, growling at something out there he cannot bring himself to name."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
2000 - 2099
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| Genre/Form |
American poetry.
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| ISBN |
0151012148 |
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9780151012145 |
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