TY - BOOK AU - Simic,Charles TI - Memory piano SN - 9780472069408 (pbk.) : AV - PN1111 .S46 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Ann Arbor, MI PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Poetry KW - History and criticism N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 1. Asphalt jungle -- 2. Divine, superfluous beauty -- 3. The mystery of presence -- 4. The always vanishing world -- 5. You can't keep a good sonnet down -- 6. The image hunter -- 7. "The water hose is on fire" -- 8. Tsvetaeva : the tragic life -- 9. Conspiracy of silence -- 10. Archives of horror -- 11. Where the fun starts -- 12. Poetry in unlikely places -- 13. The golden age of hatred -- 14. What Ez could do -- 15. Adam's umbrella -- 16. Down there on a visit -- 17. Rx for American poets -- 18. Saul Steinberg -- 19. The singing Simics -- 20. The wealth poverty buys -- 21. Angels on the laundry line -- 22. How I found the philosopher's stone --23. The memory piano ER -