Hotel Insomnia: Poems

by Simic, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780156421829
• ISBN10: 0156421828
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-11-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and american present-a world of his own creation, one always full of luminous surprise. Simic writes so simply that his words fall like drops of water, but they ripple outward to evoke an ominous and numinous world (Washington Post Book World).

Table of Contents

ONE
Evening Chess	1	(1)
The Congress of the Insomniacs	2	(1)
Matches	3	(2)
The City	5	(1)
The Infinite	6	(2)
Obscure Beginnings	8	(1)
Stub of a Red Pencil	9	(1)
The Prodigal	10	(2)
Hotel Insomnia	12	(1)
Tragic Architecture	13	(1)
Makers of Labyrinths	14	(2)
The Inanimate Object	16	(1)
Outside Biaggi's Funeral Home	17	(1)
The Tiger	18	(2)
Miss Nostradamus	20	(1)
Place at the Outskirts	21	(1)
Clouds Gathering	22	(3)
TWO
Folk Songs	25	(1)
War	26	(1)
A Book Full of Pictures	27	(1)
Evening Walk	28	(1)
Hotel Starry Sky	29	(1)
Caged Fortuneteller	30	(1)
Country Lunch	31	(1)
To Think Clearly	32	(1)
Poem	33	(1)
Quick Eats	34	(2)
Dreamsville	36	(1)
The Chair	37	(1)
Missing Child	38	(1)
The Puppet Show	39	(2)
Many Zeros	41	(1)
True History	42	(1)
Marina's Epic	43	(4)
THREE
Figure in the Landscape	47	(1)
At the Vacancy Sign	48	(2)
Lost Glove	50	(1)
Spring	51	(1)
Story of My Luck	52	(1)
Love Worker	53	(1)
Romantic Sonnet	54	(1)
Dandelions	55	(1)
Some Nights	56	(1)
Beauty	57	(1)
Street Scene	58	(1)
Early Morning in July	59	(2)
My Quarrel with the Infinite	61	(1)
Pyramids and Sphinxes	62	(1)
The Absent Spider	63	(1)
The Artist	64	(1)
The Old World	65	(1)
Country Fair	66