1. Charles Simic - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Charles Simic (born Dušan Simi , May 9, 1938 in Belgrade, Serbia) is a SerbianAmerican poet and the 15th Poet Laureate of the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simic

Charles Simic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Dušan Simić Born May 9 Belgrade Yugoslavia (modern day Serbia Occupation poet Nationality ... American Charles Simic (born Dušan Simić May 9 in Belgrade Serbia ) is a Serbian American poet and the 15th Poet Laureate of the United States . He is co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review . Simic is the recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets . This $100,000 (US) prize recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry. Contents Biography Poetry Poet Laureate Awards ... edit Biography Simic was born in Belgrade , which was then in Yugoslavia . Growing up in war-torn Europe as a child shaped much of his world-view. In an interview from Cortland Review he said, "Being one of the millions of displaced persons made an impression on me. In addition to my own little story of bad luck, I heard plenty of others. I'm still amazed by all the vileness and stupidity I witnessed in my life." Simic emigrated to the United States with his family in when he was sixteen. He grew up in

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3. NTW Poetry Breaks III, Charles Simic Charles Simic was born in Yugoslavia in 1938. His previous volumes of poetry include Kerns Cosmology (1977), nominated for the National Book Award, http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/NTW/FA/TITLES/Poetry326.HTML

Poetry Breaks III, Charles Simic Leita Hagemann Luchetti and The WGBH Educational Foundation Artist: Simic, Charles Extent: 1 videocassette of 1 (35 1/2 min.) (Betacam SP) (33:51 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. 1 videocassette of 1 (35 1/2 min.) (VHS) (33:51 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. 4 videocassettes of 4 (Betacam SP) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. 4 videocassettes of 4 (VHS) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Background: Charles Simic was born in Yugoslavia in 1938. His previous volumes of poetry include Kerns Cosmology (1977), nominated for the National Book Award, and Classic Ballroom Dances (1980), which won the 1980 di Castagnola Award and the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award. Walking the Black Cat (1996) was nominated for the National Book Award. Charles Simic has received the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the PEN Translation Prize, and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1983 he received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. In 1990 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The World Doesn't End. Simic is also known for his work as an essayist and as a translator. He has taught writing at the University of New Hampshire since 1974. The University of New Hampshire's Special Collections houses a collection of Charles Simic's personal papers. A description of these materials is available at http://www.izaak.unh.edu/specoll/mancoll/poets.htm.

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5. Poetry Review: Charles Simic CHARLES SIMIC continues to revel in play and menace in his most recent collection, Jackstraws. A jackstraw is a scarecrowa non-living thing brought to life http://bostonreview.net/BR24.3/henry.html

CURRENT ISSUE table of contents FEATURES new democracy forum new fiction forum poetry fiction ... archives ABOUT US masthead mission rave reviews contests ... advertising SERVICES bookstore locator literary links subscribe Search this site or the web Powered by FreeFind Site Web Jackstraws Charles Simic Harcourt Brace, $22 (cloth) by Brian Henry CHARLES SIMIC continues to revel in play and menace in his most recent collection, Jackstraws . A jackstraw is a scarecrow-a non-living thing brought to life through its function-as well as a man of no worth or substance. Jackstraws, though, is a game played with a pile of straw or sticks; the object is to remove each piece without disturbing the pile. It is the final meaning to which Simic refers in the title poem: My shadow and your shadow on the wall Caught with arms raised In display of exaggerated alarm, Now that even a whisper, even a breath

6. New York State Writers Institute - Charles Simic Charles Simic is widely regarded as one of America s finest poets, a man who finds extraordinary meanings in ordinary objects, and extraordinary resonances http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/simic_charles.html

C harles S imic November 13, 2003 (Thursday) 4:15 p.m. Informal Seminar 8:00 p.m. Reading Both in Recital Hall, PAC UAlbany, Uptown Campus Charles Simic is widely regarded as one of America's finest poets, a man who finds extraordinary meanings in ordinary objects, and extraordinary resonances in ordinary words. In a review of Night Picnic: Poems (2001), Simic's most recent collection, the Booklist reviewer calls the poet "a powerful and funny chronicler of an individual world, one where pastry, omelets and queen-size beds offer their ambiguous pleasures, and where, inseparably, 'the butchery of the innocent / Never stops.'" The Metaphysician in the Dark (2003). The wide-ranging collection contains imaginative and original assessments of some of the poet's heroes (Buster Keaton and Hieronymous Bosch), and favorite poets (Mark Strand, Vasko Popa, Joseph Brodsky, James Merrill, Czeslaw Milosz and John Ashbery ). Also included are two essays in which the poet, as a Serbian and humanitarian, vents his outrage at the brutal regime of Slobodan Milosevic. The World Doesn't End (1989), a collection of prose poem-fantasies. The reviewer for

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document.writeln(AAMB1); Simic, Charles Britannica Concise Print Article Email Article Cite Article Charles Simic born May 9, 1938, Belgrade, Yugos. Yugoslavian-born U.S. poet. When he was 15 years old, he and his mother moved to Paris; a year later they joined his father in the U.S. After graduating from New York University, he translated Yugoslavian poetry into English. His first volume of poetry, What the Grass Says (1967), was recognized for its lively, surrealistic imagery; the collection The World Doesn't End (1989) won a Pulitzer Prize. He also published volumes in prose, including the memoir A Fly in the Soup (2000). He was named U.S. poet laureate in 2007. document.writeln(AAMB2); More on "Charles Simic" from the 32 Volume Simic, Charles - Yugoslavian-born American poet who evoked his eastern European heritage and his childhood experiences during World War II to comment on the dearth of spirituality in contemporary life. Simic, Charles - Upon being named U.S. poet laureate in 2007, Charles Simic expressed his discomfort with a question asked of him about the place of poetry in American culture. Such a question, he told the New York Times, reminded him "so much of the way the young Communists in the days of Stalin at big party congresses would ask, 'What is the role of the writer?'" prose poem - a work in prose that has some of the technical or literary qualities of a poem (such as regular rhythm, definitely patterned structure, or emotional or imaginative heightening) but that is set on a page as prose.

9. The Connection.org : Charles Simic Charles Simic and The Voice at 300 AM. The Pulitzer Prize winning poet and familiar themes, wrapped in the grim, the absurd, and the beautiful. http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2003/05/20030519_b_main.asp

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Slobodan Milosevic A short biography of Slobodan Milosevic concentrating on his rise to power and the destruction he has left in his wake. Slobodan Milosevic was born August 29, 1941 in Pozarevac, Yugoslavia (Serbia). A child of the Second World War, Milosevic probably knew something of the crimes committed by the Croatian Ustashi, Hitler’s puppet government in the Balkans, who took Serbs as one of their main targets. Both of his parents later committed suicide: his Father, a defrocked priest in 1962 and his Mother ten years later. He met his future wife, Mirjana Markovic, when they were in high-school and they were married while both were attending the University of Belgrade and Milosevic was beginning his climb through the ranks of the Communist Party. Like Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro and other “rogue” leaders, Milosevic is a more complex figure than the Hollywood villain he’s been cast as by western governments and the press. We should remember that a large portion of these same politicians and journalists were praising him for making the Dayton Peace Accord possible and ending the siege of Bosnia in 1995. A bureaucrat who might have remained peacefully behind a desk, he rode the coat tails of Peter Stambolic, another Communist official whose family was extremely well-connected within Yugoslavia, from Director of the State-run gas monopoly to President of the Bank of Belgrade to the leadership of the Belgrade and finally the Serbian Communist parties. The nationalist firebrand he became is the creation of a man with a Machivellian flare for shedding identities which are of no more use to him.

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14. Charles Simic The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems. http://www.poets.org/csimi/

15. Current Poet Laureate, Charles Simic - Poetry (Library Of Congress) charles simic was born in Yugoslavia on May 9, 1938. His childhood was complicated by the events of World War II. He moved to Paris with his mother when he http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate_current.html

@import url(/poetry/css/poetry_ss.css); @import url(/poetry/css/poetry_sub.css); skip navigation Options The Library of Congress Poetry > Poet Laureate Poetry Home Poet Laureate Poetry News, Events Poetry Webcasts ... About the Poetry and Literature Center Related Resources at the Library Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature Walt Whitman Collection from American Memory Van Vechten's Portraits of Creative Americans from American Memory Poetry Reference Resources at the Library of Congress ... Email Updates About the Poet Laureate, Charles Simic Current Poet Laureate On Writing Poetry About the Position Poetry Room Past Poets Laureate Charles Simic was born in Yugoslavia on May 9, 1938. His childhood was complicated by the events of World War II. He moved to Paris with his mother when he was 15; a year later, they joined his father in New York and then moved to Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, where he graduated from the same high school as Ernest Hemingway. Simic attended the University of Chicago, working nights in an office at the Chicago Sun Times , but was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1961 and served until 1963. He earned his bachelor's degree from New York University in 1966. From 1966 to 1974 he wrote and translated poetry, and he also worked as an editorial assistant for

16. Charles Simic, Interview: Issue Four -- The Cortland Review Interview with charles simic conducted by JM Spalding Issue Four - The Cortland Review. http://www.cortlandreview.com/issuefour/interview4.htm

ISSUE FOUR August 1998 Charles Simic T HE C ORTLAND ... EVIEW I NTERVIEW Charles Simic P OETRY Charles Simic Kevin Pilkington Mark Wunderlich Elaine Equi ... Michael Heller F ICTION Bruce Canwell Charles Simic was born in Belgrade in 1938. He is the author of over 60 books including Walking the Black Cat A Wedding in Hell and Hotel Insomnia , all from Hartcourt Brace. His book of prose poems The World Doesn't End was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1990. In addition to being anthologized many times over, his work has appeared in New Yorker Poetry , and The Best American Poetry : for which he was the guest editor in 1992. Currently, he lives in New Hampshire with, among other things, a broken foot. This is his first appearance in an online magazine. J.M. Spalding: Could you talk about your early years and your life before you realized you were a poet? Charles Simic : Germans and the Allies took turns dropping bombs on my head while I played with my collection of lead soldiers on the floor. I would go boom, boom, and then they would go boom, boom. Even after the war was over, I went on playing war. My imitation of a heavy machine gun was famous in my neighborhood in Belgrade. When did you first feel what Pound called "the impulse" to write?

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Poem Hunter .com Poet: Charles Simic - All poems of Charles Simic 1/27/2008 1:44:05 PM Home Poets Poems Lyrics ... SEARCH Charles Simic Poems Quotations Comments More Info ... Stats Poems Search in the poems of Charles Simic Click the title of the poem you'd like read. Page: A Book Full of Pictures Against Winter Clouds Gathering Country Fair ... The School Of Metaphysics Page: Quotations "Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it," Charles Simic (b. 1938), Yugoslav-U.S. poet. Brooms (l. 1-5). . . American Poetry Anthology, The. Daniel Halpern, ed. (1975) Avon Books. "And then finally there's your grandmother Sweeping the dust of the nineteenth century Into the twentieth, and your grandfather plucking A straw out of the broom to pick his teeth." Charles Simic (b. 1938), Yugoslav-U.S. poet. Brooms (l. 55-58). . . American Poetry Anthology, The. Daniel Halpern, ed. (1975) Avon Books. Comments about Charles Simic Click here to write your comments about Charles Simic John Paisley (8/5/2007 1:10:00 PM) Simic got the poet laureate job the other day. I never heard of him before. Some poet. So I been checking him out on the web. Reading his stuff. He has an interview where he quips. He might be a funny guy. Likes jazz. I might like him but first I need to pick him apart.

18. Charles D. Simic In Oak Park, Illinois Writings by charles D. simic provides an extensive list of simic s Wonderful Words, Silent Truth, by charles simic, University of Michigan Press, http://www.oprf.com/Simic/

Against Winter The truth is dark under your eyelids. What are you going to do about it? The birds are silent; there's no one to ask. All day long you'll squint at the gray sky. When the wind blows you'll shiver like straw. A meek little lamb you grew your wool Till they came after you with huge shears. Flies hovered over open mouth, Then they, too, flew off like the leaves, The bare branches reached after them in vain. Winter coming. Like the last heroic soldier Of a defeated army, you'll stay at your post, Head bared to the first snow flake. Till a neighbor comes to yell at you, You're crazier than the weather, Charlie. Charles D. Simic Brief Biography of Charles D. Simic Charles D. Simic has been hailed as one of the America's finest poets. Born May 9, 1938, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, he arrived in America when he was 16 to rejoin his father in New York City. They moved to Oak Park shortly after that. Simic lived here 1955 to 1962. While a student at Oak Park River Forest High School , a suburban school with caring teachers and motivated students, Simic began to take new interest in his courses, especially literature. After graduation from OPRFHS in 1956, he worked a full-time job as an office boy with the Chicago Sun Times while attending college at night.

19. Charles Simic - Poet Laureate - New York Times charles simic, a writer who juxtaposes dark imagery with ironic humor, has been named the country’s 15th poet laureate by the Librarian of Congress. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/books/02poet.html

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20. Charles Simic Criticism (Vol. 130) charles simic 1938. Yugoslavian-born American poet, translator, essayist, nonfiction writer, and editor. The following entry provides an overview of http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-literary-criticism/simic-charles

utmSetVar('lit_all'); Charles Simic Criticism and Essays Welcome, guest! Login Join eNotes Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Literature Science History Business ... Z Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page Charles Simic 1938- Yugoslavian-born American poet, translator, essayist, nonfiction writer, and editor. The following entry provides an overview of Simic's career through 1997. For further information on his life and works, see CLC, Volumes, 6, 9, 22, 49, and 68. INTRODUCTION Simic's work blends surrealist and imagist techniques and employs elements of East European folklore and mysticism as well as American jazz and blues music to explore the horrors of war in his homeland and to imbue commonplace objects with philosophical significance. His perception of the subjective and intuitive natures of language is revealed in works that display a variety of influences, including those of German philosopher Martin Heidegger, Yugoslavian poet Vasko Popa, American poets from Walt Whitman to Theodore Roethke, and French surrealists such as Andr© Br©ton and St©phane Mallarm©. Biographical Information Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, just before World War II, Simic experienced as a small child the Nazi occupation of his country and later the brutal tactics of Josef Stalin during the Soviet control of Eastern Europe. In 1954 Simic's family immigrated to the United States, where they lived in New York City before settling in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. Simic attended the University of Chicago at night while working during the day at the

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