RETURN TO A PLACE LIT BY A GLASS OF MILK. POEMS
New York: George Braziller, (1974). First Edition. Softcover. Printed wraps. Also issued in hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper: "For Michael/Even the mutes are unhappy/since they've learned to/read lips/Charles Simic/Nov. 21, 1981/Boston." Fine. Item #019777
"The literary scene had a greater number of true originals then than it has today -- autodidacts, booze hounds, and near-derelicts who were walking encyclopedias -- for example Tony, an unemployed bricklayer, who went around saying things like: Even the mutes are unhappy since they've learned to read lips, and It took me sixty years to bend down to a flower" (Charles Simic, NEW YORK DAYS, 1958-1964 in THE GETTYSBURG REVIEW, Summer 1996).
Price: $125.00