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Also by Charles Simic:

That Little Something, April 2008
Hardcover
The Voice at 3:00 A.M., March 2006
Paperback
My Noiseless Entourage, April 2005
Hardcover
Jackstraws, March 2000
Paperback

THAT LITTLE SOMETHING
By: Charles Simic

Poems

Harcourt
April 2008
On Sale: April 29, 2008
96 pages
ISBN: 0151013594
EAN: 9780151013593
Hardcover
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Fiction Poetry

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. (02/15/2008)

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