| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 81 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. |
| Summary |
From one of America's most beloved poets, a piercing new collection reflecting on the characters and encounters that haunt us through this life and into the next. Leading us into a city stirring with gravediggers and beggars, lovers and dogs, Charles Simic returns with a brilliant collection full of his singular wit, dark humor, and tenderheartedness. In poems that are often as spare as they are monumental, he captures the fleeting moments of modern life--peering inside pawnshop windows, brushing shoulders with strangers on the street, and walking familiar cemetery rows--to uncover all the beauty and worry hiding in plain sight. As the poet reflects on a lifetime's worth of pleasure and loss, he recalls instances when he "made excuses and hurried away," and considers the way memory always trails just behind. No Land in Sight is a testament to all we leave in our wake and, simultaneously, all we hang on to: the passing minutes, the evening's stillness, and the many lives we inhabit in dim thresholds and bright mornings alike. |
| Subject |
Memory -- Poetry.
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Mortality -- Poetry.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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Poetry -- Collections.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections (2022)
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| ISBN |
9780593534939 (hardcover) |
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059353493X (hardcover) |
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9780593534946 (ebook) |
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