Dušan Simić was born in Belgrade. In his early childhood, during World War II, he and his family were forced to evacuate their home several times to escape indiscriminate bombing of Belgrade. Growing up as a child in war-torn Europe shaped much of his world-view, Simic stated. In an interview from the Cortland Review he said, "Being one of the millions of displaced persons made an impression on me. In addition to my own little story of bad luck, I heard plenty of others. I'm still amazed by all the vileness and stupidity I witnessed in my life."[2]
Simic immigrated to the United States with his brother and mother to join his father in 1954 when he was sixteen. He grew up in Oak Park, Illinois. In 1961, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, and in 1966, he earned his B.A. from New York University while working at night to cover the costs of tuition. He was professor emeritus of American literature and creative writing at University of New Hampshire, where he taught from 1973 on[3] and lived in Strafford, New Hampshire.[4]
Career
Simic began to make a name for himself in the early to mid-1970s as a literary minimalist, writing terse, imagistic poems.[5] 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."[6]
In 2011, Simic was the recipient of the Frost Medal, presented annually for "lifetime achievement in poetry".[12]
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.[13] Simic died of complications of dementia on January 9, 2023, at the age of 84.[14][15]
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^"Umro američki pesnik srpskog porekla Čarls Simić". Telegraf. January 9, 2023. Retrieved January 9, 2023.
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January 15, 2023
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Dusan Simic Serbian Cyrillic Dushan Simiћ pronounced dǔʃan sǐːmitɕ May 9 1938 January 9 2023 known as Charles Simic was a Serbian American poet and co poetry editor of the Paris Review He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for The World Doesn t End and was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for Selected Poems 1963 1983 and in 1987 for Unending Blues He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007 1 Charles SimicSimic in 2015BornDusan Simic 1938 05 09 May 9 1938Belgrade Kingdom of YugoslaviaDiedJanuary 9 2023 2023 01 09 aged 84 Dover New Hampshire U S OccupationPoetNotable awardsPulitzer Prize for Poetry 1990 Wallace Stevens Award 2007 Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award 2014 Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early years 1 2 Career 1 3 Personal life and death 2 Awards 3 Bibliography 3 1 Poetry 3 2 Non fiction 4 See also 5 References 6 External links 6 1 Profiles 6 2 Work 6 3 Interviews and reviewBiography EditEarly years Edit Dusan Simic was born in Belgrade In his early childhood during World War II he and his family were forced to evacuate their home several times to escape indiscriminate bombing of Belgrade Growing up as a child in war torn Europe shaped much of his world view Simic stated In an interview from the Cortland Review he said Being one of the millions of displaced persons made an impression on me In addition to my own little story of bad luck I heard plenty of others I m still amazed by all the vileness and stupidity I witnessed in my life 2 Simic immigrated to the United States with his brother and mother to join his father in 1954 when he was sixteen He grew up in Oak Park Illinois In 1961 he was drafted into the U S Army and in 1966 he earned his B A from New York University while working at night to cover the costs of tuition He was professor emeritus of American literature and creative writing at University of New Hampshire where he taught from 1973 on 3 and lived in Strafford New Hampshire 4 Career Edit Simic began to make a name for himself in the early to mid 1970s as a literary minimalist writing terse imagistic poems 5 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 6 Simic wrote on such diverse topics as jazz art and philosophy 7 He was influenced by Emily Dickinson Pablo Neruda and Fats Waller 8 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 9 Simic was one of the judges for the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize and continued to contribute poetry and prose to The New York Review of Books He received the US 100 000 Wallace Stevens Award in 2007 from the Academy of American Poets 10 Simic was selected by James Billington Librarian of Congress to be the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress succeeding Donald Hall In choosing Simic as the poet laureate Billington cited the rather stunning and original quality of his poetry 11 In 2011 Simic was the recipient of the Frost Medal presented annually for lifetime achievement in poetry 12 Personal life and death Edit Simic married fashion designer Helene Dubin in 1964 and their union produced two children In 1971 he became an American citizen 13 Simic died of complications of dementia on January 9 2023 at the age of 84 14 15 Awards EditPEN Translation Prize 1980 16 Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship 1983 17 MacArthur Fellowship 1984 1989 18 Pulitzer Prize finalist 1986 19 Pulitzer Prize finalist 1987 20 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1990 21 Wallace Stevens Award 2007 22 Frost Medal 2011 23 Vilcek Prize in Literature 2011 24 Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award 2014 17 Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings 2017 25 Bibliography EditThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items October 2022 Poetry Edit Collections1967 What the grass says poems San Francisco Kayak 1967 26 1969 Somewhere among us a stone is taking notes 1969 26 1971 Dismantling the Silence 26 1972 White 26 1974 Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk 26 1976 Biography and a Lament 26 1977 Charon s Cosmology 26 1978 Brooms Selected Poems 26 1978 School for Dark Thoughts 26 1980 They Forage at Night 1980 Classic Ballroom Dances 26 1982 Austerities 26 1983 Weather Forecast for Utopia amp Vicinity Poems 1967 1982 26 1985 Selected Poems 1963 1983 26 1986 Pulitzer Prize finalist 1986 Unending Blues 26 1987 Pulitzer Prize finalist 1989 Pyramids and Sphinxes 1989 Nine Poems 26 1989 The World Doesn t End Prose Poems 26 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1990 The Book of Gods and Devils 26 1992 Hotel Insomnia 26 1994 A Wedding in Hell Poems 26 1995 Frightening Toys 26 1996 Walking the Black Cat Poems 26 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 Poems 26 The New York Times Notable Book of the Year ISBN 0 15 601098 4 1999 Simic Charles 1999 Selected Early Poems ISBN 978 0 8076 1456 3 2001 Night Picnic 26 ISBN 0 15 100630 X 2003 The Voice at 3 00 am Selected Late and New Poems 26 ISBN 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 26 illustrated by Howie Michels 2005 My Noiseless Entourage Poems 26 ISBN 0 15 101214 8 2008 60 Poems 26 ISBN 0 15 603564 2 2008 That Little Something Poems 26 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 October 6 2010 ISBN 978 0 547 50453 7 2013 New and Selected Poems 1962 2012 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt March 26 2013 ISBN 978 0 547 92830 2 2013 Selected Early Poems George Braziller Inc March 20 2013 ISBN 978 0 8076 1620 8 2015 The Lunatic HarperCollins Ecco April 7 2015 ISBN 978 0 06 236474 6 2017 Scribbled in the Dark HarperCollins Ecco June 13 2017 ISBN 978 0 06 266117 3 2019 Come closer and listen new poems New York Ecco July 2 2019 ISBN 978 0 06 290846 9 2022 No Land in Sight Poems Knopf August 9 2022 ISBN 978 0 593 53493 9 Translations1970 Ivan V Lalic Fire Gardens 26 1970 Vasko Popa The Little Box Poems 26 1970 Four Modern Yugoslav Poets Ivan V Lalic Branko Miljkovic Milorad Pavic Ljubomir Simovic 26 1979 Vasko Popa Homage to the Lame Wolf Selected Poems 26 1983 Co translator Slavko Mihalic Atlantis 26 1987 Tomaz Salamun Selected Poems 26 1987 Ivan V Lalic Roll Call of Mirrors 26 1989 Aleksandar Ristovic Some Other Wine or Light 26 1991 Slavko Janevski Bandit Wind 26 1992 Novica Tadic Night Mail Selected Poems 26 1992 Horse Has Six Legs Contemporary Serbian Poetry 26 1999 Aleksandar Ristovic Devil s Lunch 26 2003 Radmila Lazic A Wake for the Living 26 2004 Gunter Grass The Gunter Grass Reader 26 2019 Vasko Popa Selected Poems 27 List of poemsTitle Year First published Reprinted collectedLeft out of the Bible 2021 Simic Charles May 31 2021 Left out of the Bible The New Yorker 97 14 45 Non fiction Edit 1985 The Uncertain Certainty Interviews Essays and Notes on Poetry 26 1990 Wonderful Words Silent Truth Essays on Poetry and a Memoir 26 1992 Dime Store Alchemy The Art of Joseph Cornell 26 1994 The Unemployed Fortune Teller Essays and Memoirs 26 1997 Orphan Factory Essays and Memoirs 26 2000 A Fly in the Soup Memoirs 26 2003 The Metaphysician in the Dark 26 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 26 2015 The Life of Images Selected Prose 28 See also EditBiljana D Obradovic Serbs in AmericaReferences Edit 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 Poets Academy of American About Charles Simic Academy of American Poets poets org Charles Simic Library of Congress Washington D C 20540 USA Rodriguez J Matos 2005 Unmothered Americas Poetry and Universality On Charles Simic Alejandra Pizarnik and Giannina Braschi New York Columbia University Academic Commons Simic Charles ed 1992 The Best American Poetry 1992 Charles Scribner s Sons p xv ISBN 978 0 684 19501 8 Chinen Nate January 10 2008 A Breezy Exchange Between Old Friends Jazz and Poetry The New York Times 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 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 americki pesnik srpskog porekla Carls Simic 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 Popa Vasko Simic Charles 2019 Vasko Popa selected poems New York ISBN 978 1 68137 336 2 OCLC 1037899168 Garner Dwight March 31 2015 Review Charles Simic Displays a Poet s Voice and His Passions The New York Times External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Charles Simic Profiles Edit Profile and poems of Charles Simic including audio files at the Poetry Foundation Profile and poems written and audio at Poetry Archive 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 Edit 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 BooksInterviews and review Edit 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 Stojanovic Serbian 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 amp Tomaz Salamun Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Charles Simic amp oldid 1133641070, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
