{"product_id":"9780547563817","title":"My Noiseless Entourage: Poems","description":"This collection of poems from Charles Simic demonstrates once again his wit, moral acuity, and brilliant use of imagery. His settings are a farmhouse porch, a used-clothing store, empty station platforms; his subjects love, futility, and the sense of an individual life lived among a crowd of literal and imaginary presences.\u003cbr\u003e Both sharp and sympathetic, the poems of this collection confirm Simic's place as one of the most important and appealing poets of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To Dreams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I'm still living at all the old addresses,\u003cbr\u003e Wearing dark glasses even indoors,\u003cbr\u003e On the hush-hush sharing my bed\u003cbr\u003e With phantoms, visiting in the kitchen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After midnight to check the faucet.\u003cbr\u003e I'm late for school, and when I get there\u003cbr\u003e No one seems to recognize me.\u003cbr\u003e I sit disowned, sequestered and withdrawn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These small shops open only at night\u003cbr\u003e Where I make my unobtrusive purchases,\u003cbr\u003e These back-door movie houses in seedy neighborhoods\u003cbr\u003e Still showing grainy films of my life,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The hero always full of extravagant hope\u003cbr\u003e Losing it all in the end?-whatever it was-\u003cbr\u003e Then walking out into the cold, disbelieving light\u003cbr\u003e Waiting close-lipped at the exit.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104408617200,"sku":"9780547563817","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547563817_p0.jpg?v=1763716726","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547563817","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}