Journeying from Canyon de Chelly Book

Funny, finishing this on the weekend when Congress plays with our clocks again (grr). Somewhere, around 3 a.m. when Charles Simic is up fighting insomnia, we will have lost an hour tomorrow. What a waste of a perfectly good hour!

I don't know why I've been reading so much Simic lately, but I have. As this is a "Selected Late and New Poems," it's sure I've read some of these poems before, too, but ask me if I could pick them out of a police line-up.

The "Late" poems come from books dating back to 1986. They are, in order, Unending Blues, The Book of Gods and Devils, Hotel Insomnia, A Wedding in Hell, Walking the Black Cat, and Jackstraws.

If you want to sample Simic, this is your ticket, as it is the "best of" these books by the author's say-so. Plus you get some "New Poems," as is the habit when writers put out collected works.

If you're curious, I shared one of the "New Poems" on a post dedicated to this book down this rabbit hole. It's about one of Simic's favorite topics: Dr. Death.

Cheers, then!