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Scribbled in the dark : poems /

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A diverse collection of Simic's poetry.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simic, Charles, 1938- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
American poetry > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • Dark night's fly catcher
  • Seeing things
  • At the vacancy sign
  • That elusive something
  • Fair-weather friends
  • Uninvited guest
  • All gone into the dark
  • The week
  • To boredom
  • Fish out of water
  • Illegible scribble
  • History
  • Signs of the times
  • In the courtroom
  • Missed chance
  • January
  • In wonder
  • In the snow
  • Ancient combatant
  • The night and the cold
  • All things in precipitous decline
  • The cricket on my pillow
  • Winter fly
  • Bare trees
  • Roadhouse
  • Stray hen
  • The white cat
  • The one who disappeared
  • The message
  • Birds know
  • The movie
  • Belladonna
  • On cloud nine
  • Swept away
  • My goddess
  • The lucky couple
  • Dead sure
  • The lover
  • The saint
  • The art of happiness
  • In someone's backyard
  • Cherry pie
  • A day came
  • Haunted house
  • The blizzard
  • The infinite
  • Last bet for the night
  • Description
  • Mystery theater
  • Shadow on the wall
  • Looking for a place to hide
  • Scribbled in the dark
  • In the Greek church
  • The masque
  • Many a holy man
  • The lifeboat
  • Past the cemetery
  • Star atlas
  • Night owls
  • At tender mercy.