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

Instead of a book she had ordered by mail, Amanda receives "Demon Possession, Past and Present." Soon after, something seems to take her over, and she wonders i

"From 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

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet “illuminates the shadow side of life in poems as perfectly formed and directed as the beam of a flashlight” (Booklist). Th

When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? "If you’re like most people, you don’t listen as often or as well as you�