• For Your Consideration:
• A SIGNED HARDCOVER (First Edition, First Printing) of:
• “MY NOISELESS ENTOURAGE: POEMS”
(Harcourt, 2005) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing)
• BY CHARLES SIMIC (1938-2023)
• SIGNING NOTE: The author CHARLES SIMIC’s signature appears, in black ink, on the Half Title Page. (Please see photo.)
• “It takes just one glimpse of CHARLES SIMIC’s work to establish that he is a master, ruler of his own eccentric kingdom of jittery syntax and signature insight.”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES
• “His jarring, hallucinatory poems earned him the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Foundation genius award and an appointment as poet laureate of the United States.”
—WASHINGTON POST
• “There are few poets writing in America today who share his lavish appetite for the bizarre, his inexhaustible repertoire of indelible characters and gestures…. SIMIC is perhaps our most disquieting muse.”
—HARVARD REVIEW
• “One of our finest poets.”
—NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
• “Only a very foolhardy critic would say what any SIMIC poem is about. In rich detail they are all filled with ordinary objects, but they tend to leave the impression that the poet has poked a hole into everyday life to reveal a glimpse of something endless.”
—D.J.R. BRUCKNER, NEW YORK TIMES
• “CHARLES SIMIC’s writing comes dancing on the balls of its feet, colloquially fit as a fiddle, a sparring partner for the world.”
—SEAMUS HEANEY
• “Few contemporary poets have been as influential—or as inimitable—as CHARLES SIMIC.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
• “His poems are crowded with uncanny presence, which he challenges with flirtatious directness.”
—THE NEW YORKER
• “He draws on the dark satire of Central Europe, the sensual rhapsody of Latin America, and the fraught juxtapositions of French Surrealism, to create a style like nothing else in American literature. Yet MR. SIMIC’s verse remains recognizably American—not just in its grainy, hard-boiled textures, straight out of 1940s film noir, but in the very confidence of its eclecticism.”
—ADAM KIRSCH, NEW YORK SUN
• “One of the most visceral and unique poets writing today.”
—POETRY FOUNDATION
• “A purity, an originality unmatched by many of his contemporaries.”
—HUDSON REVIEW
• “He is one of the wisest poets of his generation, and one of the best.”
—GEORGIA REVIEW
• “Some of the most strikingly original poetry of our time, a poetry shockingly stark in its concepts, imagery, and language.”
—CHICAGO REVIEW
• “CHARLES SIMIC [was a] Pulitzer prize-winning poet who awed critics and readers with his singular art of lyricism and economy, tragic insight and disruptive humor…. Author of dozens of books, SIMIC was ranked by many as among the greatest and most original poets of his time…. His poems were usually short and pointed, with surprising and sometimes jarring shifts in mood and imagery, as if to mirror the cruelty and randomness he had learned early on. ”
—THE GUARDIAN (UK)
• “His poems defied simple classification. Some were minimalist and surreal, others determinedly realistic and violent. Nearly all were replete with ironic humor and startling metaphors…. MR. SIMIC was a serious poet and thinker who disliked pretension in any form…. He wrote verse like a man who had escaped a cruel fate and was determined not to waste a moment.”
—DWIGHT GARNER, NEW YORK TIMES (THE AUTHOR’S OBITUARY, 2023)
• “He’s very hard to describe, and that’s a great tribute to him. His poems have a sequence that you encounter in dreams, and therefore they have a reality that does not correspond to the reality that we perceive with our eyes and ears.”
—JAMES H. BILLINGTON, LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS
• “What a genius he was at witnessing to horror with wit, humanity, and a cold eye…. I can’t think of another contemporary poet who wrote with such stunning sprezzatura, wit, and compassion. There is no one who can replace him, and he will be deeply missed.”
—CHARD deNIORD, PARIS REVIEW
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• For other details about this book, please see below.
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TITLE: “MY NOISELESS ENTOURAGE: Poems”
AUTHOR: CHARLES SIMIC
TYPE: HARDCOVER
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: HARCOURT (New York), 2005
EDITION: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING*
*RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First edition” & this Letter Row: “A C E G I K J H F D B.”
NOTE: This book is NOT an ex-library copy.
PAGES: 64+
ISBN: 0-15-101214-8
CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD.
Price ($22.00) is clipped. DJ is clean & bright with light scratching & smudging. Corners are bumped. Top spine is smushed & has a 1/4-inch open cut. Light wear along edges. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.)
CONDITION OF THE BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS.
Book is square & firm. Brown boards are clean & bright. Corners & edges are fine. Spine is tight & uncreased with smushed/bumped top & fine bottom. Text-block edges & endpapers are fine. The author CHARLES SIMIC’s signature appears in black ink on the Half Title Page. Pages are all pointedly bright & clean—with no writing (save for the author’s signature), no underlining, no stains, no rips, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD.
SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a protected & sturdy box. THANK YOU!
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