Night Mail: Selected Poems [Paperback]

Novica Tadic (Author), Charles Simic (Translator)

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"Oscillating between traditional and modern, realistic and fantastic, evil and good, Tadic weaves poetry whose images are visible and abstract. A labyrinth of masterful short poems" -- World Literature Today

1989
Antipsalm
Apple
At The Hairdresser (phantasmagoria)
Black Mass
Cat Strike
Conversation
Crazy Tenant
Crazy Woman
Crow, Snow
Dark Climber
Die
Dog's Gambol
Eye, Evil Eye
Faucet Maker Of Faces
A Feather Plucked From The Tail Of The Fiery Hen
The Fool
Gibe
The Guest (the Maker Of Faces Appears)
He Turns The Pages Of Books
I Ask
I Loaded Upon My Neck
I Run With A Pair Of Compasses Stuck In The Back Of My Head
I'll Stand Lame Before Deaf Judges
Icicle
Jesus
Laocoon/serpent
Liar
Lightbulb Maker Of Faces
Little Picture Catalogue
Louse
The Maker Of Faces In The Window
The Maker Of Faces Speaks
Man From The Death Institute
Medusa
The Mouth Of The Maker Of Faces
The Murderersare Sunning Themselves On A Beach
My First Record
My Magpie
My Night Labors
Needle Maker Of Faces
The Night Game Of The Maker Of Faces
Night Meditation
Night Sonnet
Nightingale
Nobody
The Operator Calls Me
Orator
Pocket Watch
Really Open Wide Is The Mouth Of The Idiot
The Rose
Servant Girl (while We Eat Lunch In The Garden)
Shoulder Cape, Story
Song
Song To The Lamb
Street Sonnet
Summoning The Night
Sun's Shame
Text, Silk
They Come For Me
Thief
This Instant Young Noah Went By
This Is The Day
This Morning I Walked Through The Park
To A Marksman
Toward Evening
Toys, Dream
The Wee-hour Lady
What The Young Man Said
You Who Appear
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 119 pages
• Publisher: Oberlin College Press (June 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932440592
• ISBN-13: 978-0932440594
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,061,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Summoning the Night, February 28, 2010

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This review is from: Night Mail: Selected Poems (Paperback)

Gigantic ants with teeth of steel, a washerwoman howling in an alley of fire, a chicken talking to itself at the bottom of a well, a porcupine of needles arguing with a dead seamstress--these images are not in this book, but they might have been. Novica Tadic is the dealer at the blackjack table in Hell's raucous casino. He also runs the snack bar outside and will smoke a cigarette with you in the alley until you discover he's not real. Still, his voice lingers... Charles Simic translated these poems into English. Fans of Simic's poetry will enjoy these dark psalms infused with black humor and absurdist truths. Half price for the cyclops...