Charles Simic (1938–2023)
Auteur de The World Doesn't End
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Charles Simic
Wonderful Words, Silent Truth: Essays on Poetry and a Memoir (Poets on Poetry) (1990) 37 exemplaires
The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry (Poets on Poetry) (1986) 36 exemplaires
School for Dark Thoughts 4 exemplaires
Readings at the Donnell Library Center 3 exemplaires
Il titolo 2 exemplaires
Biography and a Lament 2 exemplaires
'A child of chaos looking for laughs: ... the provocative work of Poland's Witold Gombrowicz' in AFR, 27 Jan 2006 1 exemplaire
'Salvation through laughter' in NYRB LIII/1, 12 Jan 2006 [review of various of Gombrowicz' books in Eng tr] 1 exemplaire
School for Dark Thoughts. 1 exemplaire
"In Praise of Invective" 1 exemplaire
Ludak 1 exemplaire
Mestre dos Disfarces 1 exemplaire
Una Boda en el Infierno 1 exemplaire
Charles Simic's Handwritten Daybook 1 exemplaire
'The Spirit of Play' in NYRB, 3 Nov 2005 [review of Anne Carson's 'Decreation: poetry, essays, opera'] 1 exemplaire
Stand-In (in Tin House 1 - SPILLMAN) 1 exemplaire
Interrogating Mr Worm (in Tin House 1 - SPILLMAN) 1 exemplaire
'Insomnia's Philosopher' in NYRB 57/17, 11 Nov 2010 [review of Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's 'Searching for Cioran' &… 1 exemplaire
Blues utan slut 1 exemplaire
Bible Lesson (in Tin House 1 - SPILLMAN) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 929 exemplaires
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Contributeur — 835 exemplaires
Hontes : confessions impudiques mises en scène par les auteurs (2003) — Contributeur — 280 exemplaires
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Contributeur — 174 exemplaires
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contributeur — 139 exemplaires
Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Contributeur — 102 exemplaires
Not for Bread Alone: Writers on Food, Wine, and the Art of Eating (1992) — Contributeur — 71 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series) (2022) — Compositeur — 43 exemplaires
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
The Prince of Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories (1998) — Avant-propos — 9 exemplaires
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Ironwood 28 Dickinson/Spicer: A Special Issue — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Kayak 8 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Antaeus No. 23, Autumn 1976 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Fire Exit, April, foldout issue, cover by Philip Guston — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Simic, Charles
- Nom légal
- Simić, Dušan
- Autres noms
- Simic, Charles
- Date de naissance
- 1938-05-09
- Date de décès
- 2023-01-09
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Yugoslavia (birth)
USA (naturalized 1971) - Lieu de naissance
- Belgrado, Servië
- Lieu du décès
- Dover, New Hampshire, USA
- Cause du décès
- complications of dementia
- Lieux de résidence
- Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Strafford, New Hampshire, USA - Études
- New York University (BA|1966)
- Professions
- writer-in-residence (Baruch College, Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence, Spring 2008)
poet
translator
editor
professor - Organisations
- University of New Hampshire
Paris Review
United States Army - Prix et distinctions
- 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) (tout afficher 9)
Zbigniew Herbert Literary Award (2014)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1995)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1990)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 104
- Aussi par
- 65
- Membres
- 3,616
- Popularité
- #7,002
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 36
- ISBN
- 169
- Langues
- 12
- Favoris
- 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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