No Land in Sight : Poems
โ Scribed by Charles Simic
- Book ID
- 110638666
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 181 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780593534946
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
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...
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