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Charles Simic (1938–2023)

Auteur de The World Doesn't End

104+ oeuvres 3,616 utilisateurs 36 critiques 9 Favoris

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

The World Doesn't End (1989) 344 exemplaires
Walking the Black Cat (1996) 185 exemplaires
Hotel Insomnia (1992) 149 exemplaires
Jackstraws: Poems (1999) 145 exemplaires
Sixty Poems (2007) 128 exemplaires
My Noiseless Entourage: Poems (2005) 111 exemplaires
Selected Poems, 1963-1983 (1985) 104 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 1992 (1992) — Directeur de publication — 102 exemplaires
The Book of Gods and Devils (1990) 96 exemplaires
That Little Something: Poems (2008) 94 exemplaires
New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012 (2013) 87 exemplaires
Unending Blues: Poems (1986) 85 exemplaires
A Wedding in Hell (1994) 84 exemplaires
Selected Early Poems (1999) 78 exemplaires
The Monster Loves His Labyrinth (2008) 76 exemplaires
The Lunatic: Poems (2015) 73 exemplaires
Master of Disguises (2010) 55 exemplaires
Night Picnic: Poems (2001) 55 exemplaires
The Life of Images: Selected Prose (2015) 54 exemplaires
New British Poetry (2004) — Directeur de publication — 52 exemplaires
Scribbled in the Dark: Poems (2017) 50 exemplaires
Selected Poems (2004) 47 exemplaires
Austerities: Poems (1982) 36 exemplaires
Come Closer and Listen: New Poems (2019) 27 exemplaires
Memory Piano (Poets on Poetry) (2006) 23 exemplaires
Classic Ballroom Dances: Poems (1980) 20 exemplaires
No Land in Sight: Poems (2022) 19 exemplaires
Confessions of a Poet Laureate (2010) 17 exemplaires
Looking for Trouble (1988) 12 exemplaires
White (1972) 11 exemplaires
Frightening Toys (1995) 9 exemplaires
9 Poems (1989) 8 exemplaires
5 blind men (1969) 7 exemplaires
What the Grass Says (1967) 6 exemplaires
Ääni aamulla kello kolme (2008) 5 exemplaires
In the Beginning (1986) 4 exemplaires
Four Yugoslav Poets (1970) 3 exemplaires
Prodigy (2010) 2 exemplaires
Il titolo 2 exemplaires
Brooms : selected poems (1978) 2 exemplaires
Avvicinati e ascolta (2021) 2 exemplaires
Ploughshares Fall 1986 (1986) 2 exemplaires
El mundo no se acaba (2013) 2 exemplaires
Biography and a Lament 2 exemplaires
Hjulet snakkar når det går (1995) 2 exemplaires
Im Dunkeln gekritzelt: Gedichte (2022) 1 exemplaire
Acércate y escucha (2020) 1 exemplaire
Sin tierra a la vista (2023) 1 exemplaire
Ludak 1 exemplaire
Mestre dos Disfarces 1 exemplaire
Blues o śnieżnym poranku (2015) 1 exemplaire
Una mosca en la sopa memorias (2010) 1 exemplaire
Een hond met vleugels (1993) 1 exemplaire
Blues utan slut 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Feu Mathias Pascal (1904) — Introduction, quelques éditions1,989 exemplaires
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contributeur — 1,270 exemplaires
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributeur, quelques éditions929 exemplaires
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Contributeur — 835 exemplaires
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (2003) — Contributeur — 774 exemplaires
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) — Contributeur — 764 exemplaires
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contributeur — 393 exemplaires
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005) — Contributeur — 365 exemplaires
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contributeur — 336 exemplaires
McSweeney's Issue 22: Three Books Held Within By Magnets (2007) — Contributeur — 336 exemplaires
The Best American Essays 2008 (2008) — Contributeur — 290 exemplaires
Hontes : confessions impudiques mises en scène par les auteurs (2003) — Contributeur — 280 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2001 (2001) — Contributeur — 223 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 1999 (1999) — Contributeur — 208 exemplaires
The Art of Losing (2010) — Contributeur — 204 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2006 (2006) — Contributeur — 190 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2005 (2005) — Contributeur — 177 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 1994 (1994) — Contributeur — 172 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 1997 (1997) — Contributeur — 167 exemplaires
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Contributeur — 164 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 1998 (1998) — Contributeur — 162 exemplaires
The Best American Essays 1995 (1995) — Contributeur — 161 exemplaires
The Best American Essays 1997 (1997) — Contributeur — 156 exemplaires
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (1994) — Contributeur — 153 exemplaires
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Contributeur — 141 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2008 (2008) — Contributeur — 136 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 1993 (1993) — Contributeur — 129 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2010 (2010) — Contributeur — 121 exemplaires
Emergency Kit (1996) — Contributeur, quelques éditions109 exemplaires
Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Contributeur — 102 exemplaires
The Best American Essays 1988 (1988) — Contributeur — 98 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2017 (2017) — Contributeur — 97 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2015 (2015) — Contributeur — 97 exemplaires
Granta 124: Travel (2013) — Contributeur — 94 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2011 (2011) — Contributeur — 86 exemplaires
Not for Bread Alone: Writers on Food, Wine, and the Art of Eating (1992) — Contributeur — 71 exemplaires
1941: The Year That Keeps Returning (2007) — Introduction, quelques éditions69 exemplaires
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Contributeur — 69 exemplaires
Saul Steinberg: Illuminations (2006) — Introduction, quelques éditions67 exemplaires
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Contributeur — 63 exemplaires
The Collected Prose: 1948-1998 (2010) — Avant-propos — 60 exemplaires
Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology (1999) — Contributeur — 48 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series) (2022) — Compositeur — 43 exemplaires
Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology (1983) — Editorial Consultant — 40 exemplaires
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Contributeur — 32 exemplaires
No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets (2003) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Contributeur — 28 exemplaires
Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All (1980) — Contributeur — 18 exemplaires
Stories from the Blue Moon Café IV (2005) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
The Paris Review 167 2003 Fall (2003) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan, Volume 03 (2013) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Little Mr. Prose Poem: Selected Poems of Russell Edson (2022) — Avant-propos — 8 exemplaires
Thomas Campion: Poems Selected by Charles Simic (2007) — Directeur de publication — 7 exemplaires
The Paris Review 84 1982 Summer (1982) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
The Paris Review 192 2010 Spring (2010) — 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

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Some of these short poems delight me with the poet's everyday metaphors and his sardonic wit like "Looking for a Soul Mate," a sort of dating app description "Recovering puff pastry and almond cookie addict,,,Now seeks a comfortable brownstone free of cats/..And where he'll be free to mingle with bankers and lawyers/And sit in their wives' laps like a much-pampered pet." Or "Meet Eddie" "Whose life is as merry as a beer can/Hurling down a mountain stream...Are you ready to meet your Maker?"
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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featherbooks | May 7, 2024 |
Curiosando tra i nuovi arrivi in biblioteca, la mia attenzione è stata catalizzata da questo libretto di 150 pagine scarse. Sono rimasta colpita dal titolo: Il mostro ama il suo labirinto. Mi è subito venuto in mente il Minotauro, che, rinchiuso nel Labirinto perché Minosse si vergognava di lui, si suppone odiasse la sua prigione. Invece, Simic ci dice che lo ama: una sorta di Sindrome di Stoccolma dei luoghi. Forse il Minotauro è grato a Minosse per averlo nascosto dalle pubbliche manifestazioni di orrore nei suoi confronti. O forse è solo felice di poter svolgere il suo ruolo di mostro con l'approvazione del re.

Comunque sia, Il mostro ama il suo labirinto è un taccuino, un insieme di pensieri sparsi del poeta. Si va dai suoi ricordi personali a pensieri fulminei (e poco lusinghieri) su politici e intellettuali. A Simic piace stravolgere il modo comune di vedere le cose (e qui ricorda un po' Il dizionario del diavolo di Ambrose Bierce) e spesso ci ricorda la bellezza della corporeità e della carnalità che la religione e il cosiddetto amore puro amano demonizzare e svilire in virtù della presunta superiorità dell'anima e degli alti sentimenti.

”Ti fanno male” mi dicono i miei amici. Come se fra me e l'immortalità si frapponessero soltanto un paio di salcicce.

Non dimentichiamoci che anche Romeo e Giulietta ogni tanto scoreggiavano e si grattavano il culo.

La bellezza di un attimo fuggente è eterna.
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lasiepedimore | 2 autres critiques | Aug 28, 2023 |
Un libro con in copertina una fotografia di Saul Leiter parte molto bene, dunque io lo compro a scatola chiusa, ignaro dell'autore e immaginando un saggio su temi di estetica o storia dell'arte. Scopro - prima ammissione di ignoranza - che Simic è un poeta. Leggendo i primi scritti, mi ritrovo in un mondo di filosofia letta di notte, salsicce, blues strazianti, casualità con cui fare i conti, fotografie misteriose. E le prime 100 pagine circa volano con gran piacere, fra un riferimento a Emily Dickinson e uno a William Carlos Williams (che conosco solo grazie a Paterson di Jarmusch - seconda ammissione di ignoranza). Le pagine successive - che non sono poche - diventano un po' più frammentarie in quanto maggiormente legate a recensioni (di esposizioni o testi). Emergono riflessioni nuovamente vitali - per esempio quelle autobiografiche o lo scritto su Cornell - ma su un tono minore rispetto a quello della per me folgorante apertura di libro. A ogni modo, lettura piena di libertà, ironia e meraviglia, che lascia almeno un paio di compiti a casa (leggere le poesia di Simic - e anche quelle di Williams e Vicente Huidobro, magari).… (plus d'informations)
 
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d.v. | 1 autre critique | May 16, 2023 |
The poems in No Land in Sight include those whose vivid imagery imprinted on my brain.

Tango

Slinky black dress
On a wire hanger
In an empty closet
its door slid open

To catch the draft
From an open window
And make it dance
As in a deep trance

The empty hangers
Clicking in unison
Like knitting needles
Or disapproving tongues.

from No Land in Sight by Charles Simic

And poems of insight into the common experience.

In the Lockdown

I might have gone stir-crazy,
If not for my memories,
Those lifelong companions
Cooped up with me for months
And eager to console me

With stories of men and women
Who withdraw from the world,
And endured years of solitude
And dark nights of the soul
Thriving in some hole-in-the-wall

Where they found lasting peace
Obeying a voice in their heads
Telling them to just sit quietly,
So that the quiet can teach them
Everything they ought to know.

from No Land in Sight by Charles Simi

There are personal memories of a life unlike my own.

Where Do My Gallows Stand?

Outside the window
I looked out as a child
In an occupied city
Quiet as a graveyard.

from No Land in Sight by Charles Simic

Many of the poems are reductions that pack a punch bigger than their size would indicate. Charles Simic writes of quietly falling snow, dogs barking in the night, the hopefulness of an old woman going to the mailbox. Commonplace visions reveal depths of emotion, a few overheard words paint a portrait.

The opening poem is Fate, consisting of one line: “everyone’s blind date.” We ruefully chuckle.

At first I was puzzled by these poems, seemingly so direct and transparent. As I read on, I realized their beauty and truth. I will seek out his earlier work.

I received a free book from A A Knopf. My review is fair and unbiased.
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nancyadair | Aug 29, 2022 |

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Œuvres
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Membres
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Popularité
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Évaluation
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Critiques
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ISBN
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