Scribbled in the Dark

Author: Charles Simic

Publisher: Ecco (2018)

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. 

“Simic . . . has always challenged and delighted his audience with writing that is beautiful and surreal and forces people to consider the validity of their own perceptions.”

–Washington Post