Charles Simic

Charles Simic ( IPA: [ tʃ ͡ɑ ː ɻls ʂimitɕ ͡ ] ) (* May 9, 1938 in Belgrade, Serbia) is an American poet and the 15th Poet Laureate of the United States. In 2007 he was appointed Poet Laureate.

Life and work

In 1953 his family moved to Chicago in the United States. He studied at New York University. He is professor emeritus of American literature and creative writing at the University of New Hampshire. He writes poems and essays for The New York Review of Books. In addition, Charles Simic translator of many works from the countries of former Yugoslavia is the American. He wrote numerous essays about the recent Balkan wars and currently the situation in Serbia and Kosovo. His 3 April 2008 published essay on the political and historical background of the recognition of Kosovo by the United States in The New York Review of Books has produced a polemical discussion, involved in the events in the former Yugoslavia senior Western diplomats and historians participated.

Awards

  • MacArthur Fellowship ( 1984)
  • Pulitzer Prize for poetry collection The World Does not End (1990 )
  • Horst- Bienek Prize for Poetry (2003)
  • Griffin Poetry Prize (2005)
  • Poet Laureate (2007)
  • Wallace Stevens Award ( 2007)
  • Frost Medal ( 2011)

Works

  • What the Grass Says (1967 )
  • Dismantling The Silence (1971 )
  • White ( 1972)
  • Return To A Place Lit By A Glass Of Milk ( 1974)
  • Charon 's Cosmology (1977 )
  • School For Dark Thoughts (1978 )
  • Classic Ballroom Dances ( 1980)
  • Austerities (1982 )
  • Unending Blues ( 1986)
  • The World Does not End: Prose Poems (1990 )
  • Hotel Insomnia (1992 )
  • Dime - Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell (1993 )
  • A Wedding in Hell ( 1994)
  • Walking the Black Cat (1996 )
  • Jack Straws ( 1999)
  • A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs ( 2000) ( German The fly in the ointment, translated by Rudolf von Bitter )
  • The Book of Gods and Devils (2000)
  • Night Picnic: Poems (2001)
  • Selected Poems: 1963-2003 (2004)
  • Monkey Around ( 2006)
  • The secret of happiness. Memories with drawings by Kurt Loeb ( 2006) ( translated by Melanie Walz of Reche )
  • The perception of the poet: on poetry and reality ( 2007) ( selected and translated by Thomas Poiss )
  • My Noiseless Entourage: Poems (2005)
  • Army. Memories with drawings by Kurt Loeb (2008)
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