Charles Simic
Charles Simic | |
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Born | Dušan Simić May 9, 1938 Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
Died | January 9, 2023 Dover, New Hampshire, U.S. | (aged 84)
Occupation | Poet |
Education | New York University (BA) |
Notable awards |
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Dušan Simić (
Biography
Early years
Dušan Simić was born in
Simic immigrated to the United States with his brother and mother to join his father in 1954, when he was sixteen. After spending a year in New York, he moved with his family to
Career
Simic began to make a name for himself in the early to mid-1970s as a literary minimalist, writing terse, imagistic poems.[4] Critics have referred to Simic's poems as "tightly constructed Chinese puzzle boxes". He himself stated: "Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is merely the bemused spectator."[5]
He was a professor of American literature and creative writing at University of New Hampshire beginning in 1973[6][7] and lived in Strafford, New Hampshire.[8] Simic wrote on such diverse topics as jazz, art, and philosophy.[9] He was influenced by Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, and Fats Waller.[10] He was a translator, essayist, and philosopher, opining on the current state of contemporary American poetry. He held the position of poetry editor of The Paris Review and was later replaced by Dan Chiasson. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1995, received the Academy Fellowship in 1998, and was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2000.[11]
Simic was one of the judges for the 2007
Simic was selected by
In 2011, Simic was the recipient of the
Simic's extensive papers as well as other material about his work are held at the
Personal life and death
Simic married fashion designer Helene Dubin in 1964, and their union produced two children. In 1971, he became an American citizen.[16] Simic died of complications of dementia on January 9, 2023, at age 84.[17][18]
Awards
- PEN Translation Prize (1980)[19]
- Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship (1983)[20]
- MacArthur Fellowship (1984–1989)[21]
- Pulitzer Prize finalist (1986)[22]
- Pulitzer Prize finalist (1987)[23]
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1990)[24]
- Wallace Stevens Award (2007)[25]
- Frost Medal (2011)[26]
- Vilcek Prize in Literature (2011)[27]
- Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award (2014)[20]
- Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings (2017)[28]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Collections
- 1967: What the grass says : poems. San Francisco: Kayak. 1967.[29]
- 1969: Somewhere among us a stone is taking notes. 1969.[29]
- 1971: Dismantling the Silence[29]
- 1972: White[29]
- 1974: Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk[29]
- 1976: Biography and a Lament[29]
- 1977: Charon's Cosmology[29]
- 1978: Brooms: Selected Poems[29]
- 1978: School for Dark Thoughts[29]
- 1980: They Forage at Night
- 1980: Classic Ballroom Dances[29]
- 1982: Austerities[29]
- 1983: Weather Forecast for Utopia & Vicinity: Poems, 1967–1982[29]
- 1985: Selected Poems, 1963–1983[29] (1986 Pulitzer Prize finalist)
- 1986: Unending Blues[29] (1987 Pulitzer Prize finalist)
- 1989: Pyramids and Sphinxes
- 1989: Nine Poems[29]
- 1989: The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems[29] (1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry)
- 1990: The Book of Gods and Devils[29]
- 1992: Hotel Insomnia[29]
- 1994: A Wedding in Hell: Poems[29]
- 1995: Frightening Toys[29]
- 1996: Walking the Black Cat: Poems,[29] (National Book Award in Poetry finalist)
- 1997: Looking for Trouble: Selected Early and More Recent Poems. Faber and Faber. 1997. ISBN 0-571-19233-5.
- 1999: Jackstraws: PoemsISBN 0-15-601098-4
- 1999: Simic, Charles (1999). Selected Early Poems. ISBN 978-0-8076-1456-3.
- 2001: Night Picnic,ISBN 0-15-100630-X
- 2003: The Voice at 3:00 am: Selected Late and New PoemsISBN 0-15-603073-X
- 2004: Selected Poems: 1963–2003, 2004 (winner of the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize)
- 2005: Aunt Lettuce, I Want to Peek under Your Skirt[29] (illustrated by Howie Michels)
- 2005: My Noiseless Entourage: Poems,ISBN 0-15-101214-8
- 2008: 60 Poems,ISBN 0-15-603564-2
- 2008: That Little Something: Poems,ISBN 0-15-603539-1
- 2008: The Monster Loves His Labyrinth: Notebooks, ISBN 1-931337-40-3
- 2010: Master of Disguises, Poems. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2010. ISBN 978-0-547-50453-7.
- 2013: New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2013. ISBN 978-0-547-92830-2.
- 2013: Selected Early Poems. George Braziller Inc. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8076-1620-8.
- 2015: The Lunatic. HarperCollins/Ecco. 2015. ISBN 978-0-06-236474-6.
- 2017: Scribbled in the Dark. HarperCollins/Ecco. 2017. ISBN 978-0-06-266117-3.
- 2019: Come closer and listen : new poems. New York: Ecco. 2019. ISBN 978-0-06-290846-9.
- 2022: No Land in Sight: Poems. Knopf. 2022. ISBN 978-0-593-53493-9.
- Translations
- 1970: Ivan V. Lalić, Fire Gardens[29]
- 1970: Vasko Popa, The Little Box: Poems[29]
- 1970: Four Modern Yugoslav Poets: Milorad Pavić, Ljubomir Simović[29]
- 1979: Vasko Popa, Homage to the Lame Wolf: Selected Poems[29]
- 1983: Co-translator, Slavko Mihalić, Atlantis[29]
- 1987: Tomaž Šalamun, Selected Poems[29]
- 1987: Ivan V. Lalić, Roll Call of Mirrors[29]
- 1989: Aleksandar Ristović, Some Other Wine or Light[29]
- 1991: Slavko Janevski, Bandit Wind[29]
- 1992: Novica Tadić, Night Mail: Selected Poems[29]
- 1992: Horse Has Six Legs: Contemporary Serbian Poetry[29]
- 1999: Aleksandar Ristović, Devil's Lunch[29]
- 2003: Radmila Lazić, A Wake for the Living[29]
- 2004: Günter Grass, The Günter Grass Reader[29]
- 2019: Vasko Popa, Selected Poems[30]
- List of poems
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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Left out of the Bible | 2021 | Simic, Charles (May 31, 2021). "Left out of the Bible". The New Yorker. 97 (14): 45. | |
Windy day | 2021 | Simic, Charles (September 20, 2021). "Windy day". The New Yorker. 97 (29): 65. |
Non-fiction
- 1985: The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry[29]
- 1990: Wonderful Words, Silent Truth: Essays on Poetry and a Memoir[29]
- 1992: Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell[29]
- 1994: The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs[29]
- 1997: Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs[29]
- 2000: A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs[29]
- 2003: The Metaphysician in the Dark[29] (University of Michigan Press, Poets on Poetry Series)
- 2006: Memory Piano. University of Michigan Press, Poets on Poetry Series. 2006. ISBN 978-0-472-06940-8.
- 2008: The Renegade: Writings on Poetry and a Few Other Things[29]
- 2015: The Life of Images: Selected Prose[31]
See also
- Biljana D. Obradović
- Serbs in America
References
- ^ "Poet Laureate Timeline: 2001–present". Library of Congress. 2009. Archived from the original on August 5, 2010. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
- ^ Charles Simic profile Archived April 8, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, CortlandReview.com. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
- ^ Govea, Javier (January 10, 2023). "Charles Simic, 84". Oak Park. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
- ^ Rodriguez, J. Matos (2005). Unmothered Americas: Poetry and Universality (On Charles Simic, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Giannina Braschi. New York: Columbia University Academic Commons.
- ISBN 978-0-684-19501-8
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
- ^ Poets, Academy of American. "About Charles Simic | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
- ^ "Charles Simic". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
- ^ Williams, Eric. "A Conversation with Charles Simic".
- ^ Simic, Charles (February 4, 2014). "Charles Simic". Charles Simic. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ "Charles Simic Receives The Wallace Stevens Award" (Press release). Academy of American Poets. August 2, 2007. Archived from the original on June 25, 2008. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
- ^ Motoko Rich (August 2, 2007). "Charles Simic, Surrealist With Dark View, Is Named Poet Laureate". The New York Times. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
- ^ "Announcing the 2011 Frost Medalist, Charles Simic". Poetry Society of America. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
- ^ "Guide to the Charles Simic Papers, 1958-2018". Library. March 7, 2008. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
- ^ "Charles Simic, Pulitzer prize-winning poet, dies at age 84". The Guardian. January 10, 2023. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- ^ Garner, Dwight (January 9, 2023). "Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84". The New York Times. Retrieved January 9, 2023.
- ^ "Umro američki pesnik srpskog porekla Čarls Simić". Telegraf. January 9, 2023. Retrieved January 9, 2023.
- ^ "1980 Literary Award Winner". PEN America. November 2, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- ^ a b "Laureate of the Zbigniew Herbert Literary Award 2014". Fundacja Herberta. May 9, 1938. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- ^ "Charles Simic". MacArthur Foundation. August 9, 2022. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- ^ "Simic Finalist 1986". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- ^ "Simic Finalist 1987". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- ^ "Simic Winner 1990". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- ^ "Charles Simic Receives the Wallace Stevens Award". poets.org. April 4, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- ^ "Announcing the 2011 Frost Medalist, Charles Simic". Poetry Society of America. January 24, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- ^ "Charles Simic". Vilcek Foundation. May 15, 2020. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- ^ "Charles Simic". Struga Poetry Evenings. May 9, 1938. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax "Former Poet Laureate Charles Simic". Library of Congress.
- OCLC 1037899168.)
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External links
Profiles
- Profile and poems of Charles Simic, including audio files, at the Poetry Foundation.
- Profile and poems written and audio at Poetry Archive[permanent dead link]
- poets.org biography, poems written and audio
- Griffin Poetry Prize biography and video clip
- Hossack, Irene. "Charles Simic". The Literary Encyclopedia; first published May 4, 2006.
Work
- Charles Simic Poetry, published in Issue Three and Issue Four of The Coffin Factory
- Charles Simic Online Resources, Library of Congress
- Audio recording (.mp3) of Charles Simic reading at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2003
- "Seven Prose Poems" by Charles Simic in The Cafe Irreal Issue 13, February 1, 2005
- Simic reading from a collection of his own works (Audio, 14 mins)
- Video of Charles Simic reading at Boston University's Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture, 2009 (60 mins)
- php? collection/Audio recording 40 Charles Simic Poems read by Thomas Boeck at Voetica.com
- Simic author page and article archive from The New York Review of Books
Interviews and review
- Mark Ford (Spring 2005). "Charles Simic, The Art of Poetry No. 90". The Paris Review.
- Poetry featured in The Coffin Factory issues 3 and 4
- The Cortland Review interview Archived April 8, 2017, at the Wayback Machine (August 1998)
- "Charles Simic: The Orphan Of Silence"; Doctoral thesis by Goran Mijuk, February 1, 2002
- An Interview with Charles Simic by Dejan StojanovićSerbian Magazine, August 9–23, 1991 (No. 89)
- SESSIONS: Confessions of a Poet Laureate, shorts.nthword.com, April 18, 2011
- 2008 Bomb Magazine discussion between Charles Simic & Tomaž Šalamun