No Land in Sight Poems

Leading 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 humour, 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 to: the passing minutes, the evening's stillness, and the many lives we inhabit in dim thresholds and bright mornings alike.

ISBN:	9780593534939
Publisher:	Knopf
Imprint:	Knopf
Published date:	26 Jul 2022
DEWEY:	811.54
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	96
Weight:	284g
Height:	161mm
Width:	237mm
Spine width:	17mm

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