{"product_id":"simic-charles-come-closer-and-listen","title":"Simic, Charles: Come Closer and Listen","description":"\u003cp\u003eEcco Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 14, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIrreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, \u003cem\u003eCome Closer and Listen\u003c\/em\u003e is the latest work from one of our most beloved poets. With his trademark sense of humor, open-hearted empathy, and perceptive vision, Charles Simic roots his poetry in the ordinary world while still taking in the wide sweep of the human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom poems pithy, wry, and cutting--\"Time--that murderer\/no one has caught yet\"--to his layered reflections on everything from love to grief to the wonders of nature, from the story of St. Sebastian to that of a couple weeding side by side, Simic's work continues to reveal to us an unmistakable voice in modern poetry. An innovator in form and a chronicler of both our interior lives and the people we are in the world, Simic remains one of our most important and lasting voices on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32962546106391,"sku":"9780062908476","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/cs_d5683df2-b340-4bc7-91db-bd6e019a4671.gif?v=1605836186","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/simic-charles-come-closer-and-listen","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}