Charles Simic (1938–2023)
Forfatter af The World Doesn't End
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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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af Charles Simic
Wonderful Words, Silent Truth: Essays on Poetry and a Memoir (Poets on Poetry) (1990) 37 eksemplarer
The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry (Poets on Poetry) (1986) 35 eksemplarer
School for Dark Thoughts 4 eksemplarer
Readings at the Donnell Library Center 3 eksemplarer
Il titolo 2 eksemplarer
Biography and a Lament 2 eksemplarer
Mestre dos Disfarces 1 eksemplar
Ludak 1 eksemplar
Charles Simic's Handwritten Daybook 1 eksemplar
"In Praise of Invective" 1 eksemplar
School for Dark Thoughts. 1 eksemplar
'Salvation through laughter' in NYRB LIII/1, 12 Jan 2006 [review of various of Gombrowicz' books in Eng tr] 1 eksemplar
Blues utan slut 1 eksemplar
Una Boda en el Infierno 1 eksemplar
'The Spirit of Play' in NYRB, 3 Nov 2005 [review of Anne Carson's 'Decreation: poetry, essays, opera'] 1 eksemplar
Mortification (ROBERTSON) 1 eksemplar
Stand-In (in Tin House 1 - SPILLMAN) 1 eksemplar
Bible Lesson (in Tin House 1 - SPILLMAN) 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 901 eksemplarer
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Bidragyder — 817 eksemplarer
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Bidragyder — 171 eksemplarer
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Bidragyder — 132 eksemplarer
Not for Bread Alone: Writers on Food, Wine, and the Art of Eating (1992) — Bidragyder — 70 eksemplarer
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Bidragyder — 29 eksemplarer
The Prince of Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories (1998) — Forord — 9 eksemplarer
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Antaeus No. 23, Autumn 1976 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Ironwood 28 Dickinson/Spicer: A Special Issue — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Kayak 8 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Fire Exit, April, foldout issue, cover by Philip Guston — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Simić, Dušan
- Andre navne
- Simic, Charles
- Fødselsdato
- 1938-05-09
- Dødsdag
- 2023-01-09
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Yugoslavia (birth)
USA - Fødested
- Belgrado, Servië
- Dødssted
- Dover, New Hampshire, USA
- Bopæl
- Belgrade, Serbia
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Strafford, New Hampshire, USA - Uddannelse
- New York University
- Erhverv
- writer-in-residence (Baruch College, Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence, Spring 2008)
poet
translator - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1995)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- 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) (vis alle 7)
Zbigniew Herbert Literary Award (2014)
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- Medlemmer
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- Popularitet
- #7,205
- Vurdering
- 3.9
- Anmeldelser
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- ISBN
- 170
- Sprog
- 11
- Udvalgt
- 9
- Trædesten
- 77
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.… (mere)