No Land in Sight

<b>From one of America's most beloved poets a piercing new collection reflecting on the characters and encounters that haunt us through this life and into the next</b> <p/>Leading us into a city stirring with gravediggers and beggars lovers and dogs Charles Simic returns with a brilliant collection full of his singular wit dark humor and tenderheartedness. In poems that are often as spare as they are monumental he captures the fleeting moments of modern life--peering inside pawnshop windows brushing shoulders with strangers on the street and walking familiar cemetery rows--to uncover all the beauty and worry hiding in plain sight. <p/>As the poet reflects on a lifetime's worth of pleasure and loss he recalls instances when he made excuses and hurried away and considers the way memory always trails just behind. <i>No Land in Sight</i> is a testament to all we leave in our wake and simultaneously all we hang on to: the passing minutes the evening's stillness and the many lives we inhabit in dim thresholds and bright mornings alike.<br>