Hotel Insomnia: Poems

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-11-01
Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc
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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

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