Come Closer and Listen

<p><strong>An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic </strong><br/><br/>Irreverent and sly observant and keenly imagined <em>Come Closer and Listen</em> 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. </p><p>From poems pithy wry and cutting--Time--that murderer/that no 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. </p>