Charles Simic crafts poetry that delves into the subtle absurdities of everyday life, revealing profound truths in the ordinary. His work often navigates themes of memory, conflict, and the persistent search for meaning amidst chaos. Simic's distinct style is marked by its clarity, economy of language, and a remarkable ability to distill significant insights from the smallest observations. Readers connect with his writing for its unvarnished honesty and enduring wisdom.
Charles Simic's poetry showcases his mastery through a distinctive style characterized by jittery syntax and profound insights. His unique voice creates an eccentric kingdom of thought, inviting readers into a world rich with unexpected imagery and philosophical depth. The collection reflects his ability to blend the ordinary with the extraordinary, offering a captivating exploration of language and perception.
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 nextLeading 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 the passing minutes, the evening’s stillness, and the many lives we inhabit in dim thresholds and bright mornings alike.
Gedichte
Respektlos, scharfsinnig und voll abgründigem Witz – ein neuer Gedichtband von Charles Simic Charles Simic ist einer der großen Lyriker unserer Zeit und einer der feinfühligsten Chronisten des Menschseins. Seine Dichtung ist einzigartig in ihrer Verbindung von Witz und Melancholie, ihrer tiefen Empathie, die selbst der Fliege gilt: „In einem Palast solltest du leben wie ein König / Und nicht auf meiner Küchenwand zittern.“ Geboren in einem Land, das es nicht mehr gibt, hat es den Dichter im Leben herumgetrieben und er lernte die Gerechtigkeit als „eine blinde Dame“ kennen. Was er dabei nie verloren hat, ist die Lust durch die Straßen zu streifen, um das gewöhnliche Leben zu beobachten. Jedes Bild ist ein „kleines Universum für sich“. Dieser Band versammelt Simics schönste Gedichte der letzten Jahre.
An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the latest work from one of our most beloved poets.
Selected Early Poems spans the years 1963-1983 and includes works from Simic’s first twelve collections. United States poet laureate & Pulitzer Prize winner, Charles Simic adds a new introduction to the most comprehensive collection of his early poetry from 1963-1983.
Nájdeme tu 16 básní. Simicova poézia predstavuje ten typ citlivosti, ktorá nás svojím ustavičným spochybňovaním spôsobov vnímania vystríha pred tými, ktorých Simic nazýva „nepriateľmi slobodných bytostí“.
Presents a collection of poems that examines the darker side of history and human behavior, looking at the strange interplay between ordinary life and extremes and between reality and imagination.
Serbian by birth, brought up under Nazi occupation and transplanted to America in his teens, Charles Simic has had the opportunity to distill a highly particular vision of the world, in which comic gaiety goes hand in hand with the recognition of our darker spiritual and philosophical problems. Blending the real and the surreal, the urbane and the uncanny, Simic's poems construct a neighbourhood of experience that is estranged yet recognisably at home with its surroundings. He notes what the eye sees and what the subsconscious has to say on the matter, in a poetry which is a triumph of the plain style.This selection, made by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author himself from forty years of writing, is an outstanding overview of one of the wisest American poets.'Simic's writing comes dancing out on the balls of its feet, colloquially fit as a fiddle, a sparring partner for the world.' Seamus Heaney
Charles Simic, ironico, sfrontato, guizzante e tenero poeta, è maestro della lirica breve e della sprezzatura. Il suo mondo, folto di immagini balenanti («Le stelle – impronte di denti sulle matite dei bambini»), è una sottile, tenace esplorazione di quanto ci sta intorno. L’insonnia è la sua malattia. Il suo sguardo, attratto dalle zone di confine, si posa spesso su una regione sospesa tra il sogno e la veglia, la fantasticheria e la contemplazione, in cui il lettore si trova, in un primo momento, spaesato. Le sue parole ricreano fotogrammi dall’inquadratura decentrata, ritraggono dettagli della realtà per mostrarne l’elemento alieno che vi è inglobato, allegramente terrifico, eppure consueto. Un elemento che vive a nostra insaputa e sotto i nostri stessi occhi: «e a mezzogiorno il soffitto / è un sontuoso viluppo / d’ombre frondose / che s’aggrovigliano e sgrovigliano». Il tono discorsivo, il lessico semplice, la sintassi elementare e il verso libero danno forma a visioni terse, sorprendenti quanto icastiche, trama di un cantare zingaro che costeggia la morte opponendole il sorriso di un’intelligenza ardente quanto vigile.
Wenn es im Haus plötzlich ganz still wird, ahnt Mama nichts Gutes. Bestimmt hat Pepé wieder was angestellt. Doch wo steckt er nun wieder? Im Strickkorb zwischen den Wollknäueln? Nein. Vorm Fernseher? Nein. Aber wenn man den Tatzenspuren in jedem Bild folgt, findet man ihn bestimmt!
