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The voice at 3:00 a.m. : selected late & new poems / Charles Simic.
LIBRA PS3569.I4725 V65 2006 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simic, Charles, 1938-2023.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--21st century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xiii unnumbered pages, 177 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Harvest [paperback] edition.
- Other Title:
- Voice at three a.m.
- Place of Publication:
- Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2006.
- Summary:
- One of the leading American poets offers a new collection of poems that plumbs the ordinary American experience for spiritual insights, wit, and historical relevance. Reprint.
- Contents:
- From Unending Blues, 1986. December
- Early evening algebra
- Toward nightfall
- Willian and Cynthia
- At the night court
- First frost
- For the sake of Amelia
- October arriving
- Against whatever it is that's encroaching
- Promises of leniency and forgiveness
- From The Book of Gods and Devils, 1990. The Little pins of memory
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- A Letter
- Factory
- Shelley
- The Betrothal
- The Devils
- Evening talk
- The White room
- Frightening toys
- The Big war
- Death, the philosopher
- At the corner
- A Word
- The Pieces of the clock lie scattered
- The Immortal
- The Gods
- Two dogs
- Cabbage
- Paradise
- In the library
- The Scarecrow
- Windy evening
- From Hotel Insomnia, 1992. Evening chess
- The City
- Penal architecture
- The Prodigal
- Hotel insomnia
- The Tiger
- Clouds gathering
- Folk songs
- A Book full of pictures
- Evening walk
- Hotel starry sky
- To think clearly
- The Chair
- Lost glove
- Romantic sonnet
- Beauty
- My quarrel with the infinite
- The Old world
- Country fair
- From A Wedding in Hell, 1994. Sinister company
- Dream avenue
- Paradise motel
- The Clocks of the dead
- Explaining a few things
- Romantic landscape
- Leaves
- Transport
- Crazy about her shrimp
- Reading history
- Empires
- The Tower
- Shaving
- Mystics
- Via del Tirtone
- The Secret
- From Walking the Black Cat, 1996. Mirrors at 4 A.M.
- Relaxing in a madhouse
- Late call
- Emily's theme
- Cameo appearance
- What the gypsies told my grandmother while she was still a young girl
- Charm school
- October light
- Ghosts
- At the cookout
- Club midnight
- Blood orange
- Pastoral harpsichord
- The Friends of Heraclitus
- From Jackstraws, 1999. Speck-sized screaming head
- The Soul has many brides
- El Libro de la sexualidad
- Mummy's curse
- Prison guards silhouetted against the sky
- School for visionaries
- Midsummer feast
- Obscurely occupied
- On the meadow
- Talking to the ceiling
- De occulta philosophia
- Mystic life
- Ambiguity's wedding
- Head of a doll
- From Night Picnic, 2001. Past lives therapy
- Unmade beds
- Street of jewelers
- The One to worry about
- Cherry blossom time
- Sunday papers
- And then I think
- The Altar
- My father attributed immortality to waiters
- Views from a train
- Night picnic
- Car graveyard
- Wooden church
- The Lives of the alchemists
- New Poems. Nearest nameless
- Empty barbershop
- In the street
- Grayheaded schoolchildren
- Serving time
- Postcard from S.
- Little night music
- Driving these roads
- The Museum opens at midnight
- Party fiend
- The Prompter
- Autumn sky
- Something large is in the woods
- To the one tunneling
- Separate truths
- The Secret Doctrine
- The Hearse
- Cafe Don Quixote
- Late September.
- ISBN:
- 015603073X
- 9780156030731
- OCLC:
- 74493105
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