{"product_id":"9780156421829","title":"Hotel Insomnia: Poems","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eSimic, Charles\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eEcco\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11\/11\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and american present-a world of his own creation, one always full of luminous surprise. “Simic writes so simply that his words fall like drops of water, but they ripple outward to evoke an ominous and numinous world” (Washington Post Book World).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when the waking world dissolves into dream, and memory becomes a haunting ground?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSurrealism and the Everyday:\u003c\/b\u003e Witness the mundane crack open to reveal the mythic, where a trip to the funeral home or a glance at a red pencil becomes a descent into the uncanny.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEastern European Memory:\u003c\/b\u003e Journey through a rich, haunted landscape where Old World folktales and sorrows bleed into the American present.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Poetry of Insomnia:\u003c\/b\u003e Spend the wee hours in the titular Hotel Insomnia, a world populated by angels and pigs, where sleep never comes but luminous surprises do.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHaunting \u0026amp; Lyrical Verse:\u003c\/b\u003e Experience the simple, masterful lines that earned Charles Simic the Pulitzer Prize, where each word falls like a drop of water into a deep, ominous well.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47066748027135,"sku":"9780156421829","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780156421829_s600x595.jpg?v=1780332462","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780156421829","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}