From the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate a collection of elegiac irreverent new
poems-an American master at the height of his talent The latest volume of poetry from Charles
Simic hums with the liveliness of the writer's pen. Scribbled in the Dark brings the poet's
signature sardonic sense of humor piercing social insight and haunting lyricism to diverse
and richly imagined landscapes. Peopled by policemen presidents kids in Halloween masks a
fortune-teller a fly on the wall of the poet's kitchen set on crowded New York streets on
park benches and under darkened skies the pages within toy with the end of the world and its
infinity. Simic continues to be an imitable voice in modern American poetry and one of its
finest chroniclers of the human condition.
