Book Of Gods And Devils Book

One of the most stunning poets..
reading this is like taking a voyage inside an amazing set of surrealistic paintings or short films.
Simic transcends all limitations to deliver his images..and to build a world where symbols and objects are some of many keys in understanding it or even just to feel it..
I absolutely love it..
Here are some passages I was so stunned by from the book:

"I left parts of myself everywhere,
The way absent-minded people leave
Gloves and umbrellas
Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck."

"Many other strange things came to pass.
Once a naked woman climbed on the chair
To reach the apple in the Cage.
I was on the floor watching her go on tiptoe.
Her hand fluttering in the cage like a bird.

On other days, the sun peeked through dusty windowpanes
To see what time it was. But there was no clock,
Only the knife in the cage, glinting like a mirror,
And the chair in the far corner
where someone once sat facing the brick wall. "

"The poet spoke of the everlasting universe
Of things... of gleams of a remoter world
which visit the soul in sleep...
Of a desert peopled by storms alone... "

"In that whole city you could hear a pin drop.
Believe me.
I thought I heard a pin drop and I went looking for it."