Charles Simic: Selected Early Poems Book

Butcher Shop

Cockroach

Tapestry

Evening

The Inner Man

Pastoral

Animals and Birds

Fear

Marching

Chorus for One Voice

Sleep

Psalm

Poem

Summer Morning

Dismantling the Silence

Bestiary for the Fingers of My Right Hand

Fork

Spoon

Knife

My Shoes

Ax

Stone

Poem without a Title

Explorers

Concerning My Neighbors, the Hittites

Invention of Nothing

errata

The Bird

Elementary Cosmogony

Two Riddles

Brooms

Watermelons

Watch Repair

Traveling

Needle

Ballad

Solving the Riddle

The Place

Breasts

Charles Simic

Closed House

Solitude

The Point

The Pillow

The Soup

The Chicken without a Head

White

What the White Had to Say

The Partial Explanation

The Lesson

A Landscape with Crutches

The Variant

The Summons

Poem

Nursery Rhyme

Help Wanted

Animal Acts

Charon's Cosmology

Happy End

The Ballad of the Wheel

A Wall

The Guest

Description

The Terms

Eraser

Traveling Slaughterhouse

Eyes Fastened with Pins

Trees at Night

Euclid Avenue

The Prisoner

A Day Marked with a Small White Stone

Position without a Magnitude

Untitled

Primer

School for Dark Thoughts

Empire of Dreams

Prodigy

Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators

Whispers

Shirt

Great Infirmities

The Healer

Navigator

A Suitcase Strapped with a Rope

Begotten of the Spleen

Toy Factory

The Little Tear Gland That Says

The Stream

Immortal Prankster

Furniture Mover

Elegy

Note Slipped under a Door

December Trees

Grocery

Classic Ballroom Dances

Progress Report

Harsh Climate

Peaceful Kingdom

Bedtime Story

The Tomb of Stephane Mallarme

Forest Birds

Figuring

History Book

Black Days

Fool's Paradise

Body and Soul

Venus

Sewing Machine

Gravity

Northern Exposure

Winter Night

The Cold

A Fall Day

There They Stand Unaware of Their Wretchedness

Further Adventures of Charles Simic

Devotions

Shortcut

Old Couple

Cold Blue Tinge

The Writings of the Mystics

Window Washer

The Homeless

Misfortune Is on the Way

Prison

The Overcoat

The Game

Gallows Etiquette

In Midsummer Quiet

Peaceful Trees

The Unknown One

Chairs

My Beloved

Gospel Hour

A Quiet Talk with Oneself

Hurricane Season

Note

An Evening with the Master

Spoons with Realistic Dead Files on Them

History

Rough Outline

Strictly Bucolic

Crows

February

Inheritance

The Amazing Potato Peeler

A Tub

Fable

Punch Minus Judy

Small Wonders

Piety

Austerities

Thus

Shaving at Night

Eastern European Cooking

The Childhood of Parmenides

Drawing the Triangle

Interlude

My Weariness of Epic Proportions

Madonnas Touched Up with Goatees

Rural Delivery

Old Mountain Road

The Great Horned Owl

Autumn Air

Midpoint

Drawn to Perspective