Le livre est à la fois documentaire et fiction de Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), comme si l’auteur incarnait dans son propre parcours l’horizon artistique de Cornell et nous donnait bien davantage à découvrir en s’inscrivant au plus près de l’artiste, pour ne pas dire dans sa chair même. Canty, le traducteur, nous donne l’occasion d’apprivoiser l’un des poètes américains actuels les plus reconnus aux États-Unis et en Europe. Charles Simic, qui a arpenté les mêmes rues que Cornell, nous donne ici un livre de marcheur, Baedeker éclaté de cette ville réelle irréelle où Cornell a passé sa vie, à la frontière d’Onirie et d’Amérique. Les immigrants d’une Europe de conte, les spectres de Taglioni, d’Houdini et de Bartleby, de Poe, Melville ou Dickinson, se mêlent aux figurants d’un théâtre de papier. Alchimie de brocante, avec son mélange de prose, de poésie et de fragments des journaux de Cornell, porte à conclure que la découverte du Nouveau Monde continue depuis toujours.

Alchimie de brocante

Le livre des dieux et des démons

An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen 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. 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.

Come Closer and Listen - New Poems

A collection of new and selected essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate. In addition to being one of America's most famous and commended poets, Charles Simic is a prolific and talented essayist. The Life of Images brings together his best prose work written over twenty-five years. A blend of the straightforward, the wry, and the hopeful, the essays in The Life of Images explore subjects ranging from literary criticism to philosophy, photography to Simic's childhood in a war-torn country. Culled from five collections, each work demonstrates the qualities that make Simic's poetry so brilliant yet accessible. Whether he is revealing the influence of literature on his childhood development, pondering the relationship between food and comfort, or elegizing the pull to return to a homeland that no longer exists, the legendary poet shares his distinctive take on the world and offers an intimate look into his remarkable mind.

The Life of Images - Selected Prose

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate, a collection of elegiac, irreverent new poems-an American master at the height of his talent  The latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic hums with the liveliness of the writer's pen. Scribbled in the Dark brings the poet's 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 poet's kitchen; set 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. Simic continues to be an imitable voice in modern American poetry and one of its finest chroniclers of the human condition.

Scribbled in the Dark

In his thirteenth collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic melds folklore and black magic with everyday life. Hamlet's ghost wandering the halls of a Vegas motel, a street corner ventriloquist using passersby as dummies, and Jesus panhandling in a weed-infested Eden are just a few of the startling conceits Simic unleashes in this collection. "Few contemporary poets have been as influential-or inimitable-as Charles Simic."-The New York Times Book Review

Walking The Black Cat

Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the seemingly mundane minutiae of contemporary American culture, Simic matches meditations on spiritual concerns and the weight of history with a nimble wit, shifting effortlessly to moments of clear vision and intense poetic revelation. Chosen as one of the New York Library's 25 Books to Remember for 2003, The Voice at 3:00 A. M. was also nominated for a National Book Award. The recipient of many prizes, Simic most recently received Canada's Griffin Prize. The poems in this collection--spanning two decades of his work--present a rich and varied survey of a remarkable lyrical journey. In the StreetBeauty, dark goddess, We met and partedAs though we parted not. Like two stopped watchesIn a dusty store window, One golden morning of time.

The Voice At 3:00 A.m. - Selected Late and New Poems

Le livre est à la fois documentaire et fiction de Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), comme si l'auteur incarnait dans son propre parcours l'horizon artistique de Cornell et nous donnait bien davantage à découvrir en s'inscrivant au plus près de l'artiste, pour ne pas dire dans sa chair même. Canty, le traducteur, nous donne l'occasion d'apprivoiser l'un des poètes américains actuels les plus reconnus aux États-Unis et en Europe. 
Charles Simic, qui a arpenté les mêmes rues que Cornell, nous donne ici un livre de marcheur, Baedeker éclaté de cette ville réelle irréelle où Cornell a passé sa vie, à la frontière d'Onirie et d'Amérique. Les immigrants d'une Europe de conte, les spectres de Taglioni, d'Houdini et de Bartleby, de Poe, Melville ou Dickinson, se mêlent aux figurants d'un théâtre de papier. Alchimie de brocante, avec son mélange de prose, de poésie et de fragments des journaux de Cornell, porte à conclure que la découverte du Nouveau Monde continue depuis toujours.

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