Scribbled in the Dark: Poems

About this book

From the Pulitzer Prizewinning former poet laureate a collection of elegiac irreverent lyrical new poemsan American master at the height of his talent shining light out into the dark The latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic hums with the liveliness of the writers penScribbled in the Dark brings the poets signature sardonic sense of humor piercing social insight and haunting lyricism to diverse and richly imagined landscapes. Peopled by policemen presidents kids in Halloween masks a fortune-teller a fly on the wall of the poets kitchen; on crowded New York streets on park benches and under darkened skies: the pages within toy with the end of the world and its infinity. Charles Simic continues to be an imitable voice in modern American poetry one of its finest chroniclers of the human condition.