Charles Simic (1938–2023)
Autor de The World Doesn't End
Sobre El Autor
Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, immigrated with his family to Chicago in 1954, and was educated at New York University. Although his native language was Serbian, he began writing in English. Some of his work reflects the years he served in the U.S. Army (1961--63). He has been mostrar más awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, a Guggenheim Foundation grant, and a National Endowment for the Arts award. "My poetry always had surrealistic tendencies, which were discouraged a great deal in the '50's," the poet said, but such tendencies were applauded in the 1970s and his reputation consequently flourished. His poems are about obsessive fears and often depict a world that resembles the animism of primitive thought. His work has affinities with that of Mark Strand and has in its turn produced several imitators. Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007 (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Library of Congress
Obras de Charles Simic
School for Dark Thoughts 4 copias
Biography and a Lament 2 copias
Il titolo 2 copias
"In Praise of Invective" 1 copia
School for Dark Thoughts. 1 copia
Ludak 1 copia
Mestre dos Disfarces 1 copia
Una Boda en el Infierno 1 copia
Blues utan slut 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 925 copias
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Contribuidor — 173 copias
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contribuidor — 138 copias
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contribuidor — 33 copias
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Ironwood 28 Dickinson/Spicer: A Special Issue — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Kayak 8 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Antaeus No. 23, Autumn 1976 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Fire Exit, April, foldout issue, cover by Philip Guston — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Simic, Charles
- Nombre legal
- Simić, Dušan
- Otros nombres
- Simic, Charles
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1938-05-09
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2023-01-09
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Yugoslavia (birth)
USA (naturalized 1971) - Lugar de nacimiento
- Belgrado, Servië
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Dover, New Hampshire, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- complications of dementia
- Lugares de residencia
- Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Strafford, New Hampshire, USA - Educación
- New York University (BA|1966)
- Ocupaciones
- writer-in-residence (Baruch College, Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence, Spring 2008)
poet
translator
editor
professor - Organizaciones
- University of New Hampshire
Paris Review
United States Army - Premios y honores
- MacArthur Fellowship (1984-1989)
Wallace Stevens Award (2007)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (2007)
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1998)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1976)
Frost Medal (2011) (mostrar todos 9)
Zbigniew Herbert Literary Award (2014)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1995)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1990)
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 104
- También por
- 65
- Miembros
- 3,594
- Popularidad
- #7,051
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 36
- ISBNs
- 169
- Idiomas
- 11
- Favorito
- 9
Others didn't work as well for me, like his soulful verse about God and Satan, each playing Solitaire ("Dark Night") or "Passing Through," but I like his dogs, his cats, his fish, his fleas and birds and poems of winter. My favorite was this one (perhaps the emblematic-of-the book?) line "About life being both cruel and beautiful" and "the sight of a dog free from his chain."
"So Early in the Morning"
It pains me to see an old woman fret over
A few small coins outside a grocery store -
How swiftly I forget her as my own grief
Finds me again - a friend at death's door
And the memory of the night we spent together.
I had so much love in my heart afterward,
I could have run into the street naked
Confident anyone I met would understand
My madness and my need to tell them
About life being both cruel and beautiful,
But I did not - despite the overwhelming evidence:
A crow bent over a dead squirrel in the road,
The lilac bushes flowering in some yard,
And the sight of a dog free from his chain
Searching through a neighbor's trash can.
If you want to read the best review of this book, see s.penkevich https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22752746-the-lunatic?from_search=true&fr...
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