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	Charles Simic Reading - Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
		Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Simic, born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia, emigrated to the United States in 1954.
		Simic reads from his poem “I Was Stolen by the Gypsies” in this recording.
		"I was stolen by the gypsies..." written and read by Charles Simic, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1990, from A Century of Recorded Poetry: In Their Own Voices (Cat.# Rhino Word Beat R2R4 72408) (c) Charles Simic (p)1996 Rhino Records Inc. (p)1996 Charles Simic.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461543352/Charles_Simic_Reading.html (127 words)

	Charles Simic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Simic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, (now Serbia and Montenegro) his childhood was very traumatic, as Nazi and Allied bombers ravaged his homeland.
		Simic emigrated to the USA in 1953 to rejoin his father, who was living in New York City.
		Simic was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1995, which can be considered the highest formal recognition of artistic merit in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Simic (382 words)

	Charles Simic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Charles Simic's 12th book of poetry has appeared just in the nick of time.
		The lyric poem is political because, in Simic's words, it communicates "often a scandalous assertion that the private is public, that the local is universal, that the ephemeral is eternal." If this seems at all far-fetched, think of how throughout history totalitarian regimes have systematically feared and then destroyed their poets.
		What distinguishes this new volume from Simic's earlier work is the charged glimpse here and there of an autobiographical self that is less refracted through his familiar casts of characters and symbols than it's been in earlier volumes.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/books/reviews/05-97/SIMIC.html (587 words)

	Charles Simic
		Charles Simic developed the reputation, along with Russell Edson, of being one of the foremost surrealist poets of his era.
		Simic found in jazz an expression of artistic daring built on a foundation of craft: “It wasn't just that they were being reckless.
		Simic, who has written that the “scandal” of American poetic culture is its neglect of the poetry of other countries, has translated a number of poets from different languages, including the Yugloslav poets Ivan V. Lalic, Vasko Popa, Slavko Janevski, and Novica Tadic.
	www.opus40.org /tadrichards/CSimicGW.html (1622 words)

	Books: Messiahs and Mouse Turds (Tucson Weekly . 04-06-98)
		Simic was in Manhattan when this epiphany hit him, decades ago, listening to early bebop jazz in the back room of a nightclub.
		Simic's surrealism is the neatly clipped, almost figurative, surrealism of André Breton, the French writer and founder of surrealism as an aesthetic school of thought.
		While Simic's poems are popular largely because of the directness and lucidity of their imagery, it's also true that Simic has continued to succeed as a surrealist poet by not relying solely on "the weird image" to deliver the altered state of surreal experience.
	weeklywire.com /ww/04-06-98/tw_book2.html (547 words)

	Poetry Review: Charles Simic
		Simic's recent poetry demonstrates the fruits of such skills; but at this stage in his career, complacency, with its resulting predictability, emerges as the foremost threat to his work.
		Simic seeks to deflate and defame (religion, governments, the machine of history), thereby perpetuating the romantic poet's privileging of the self.
		Although Simic has created a potentially new style with "Talking to the Ceiling," the poem's title diminishes his accomplishment, reducing the leaps and restraints of the poem to a disconnected monologue (one person "talking," not to another person but to "the ceiling"), when the poem itself leans toward polyphony and indeterminacy.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR24.3/henry.html (1273 words)

	poeticvoices.com December 1998 Feature: Charles Simic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Charles Simic is one of the few poets who has rocked the world of poetry this century.
		Charles Simic was born in Belgrade Yugoslavia in 1938.
		Simic began writing in his last year of high school because a couple friends of his had shown him poems they had written.
	www.poeticvoices.com /Features/9812Simic.htm (1606 words)

	Poetry Review: Charles Simic
		Simic's recent poetry demonstrates the fruits of such skills; but at this stage in his career, complacency, with its resulting predictability, emerges as the foremost threat to his work.
		Simic seeks to deflate and defame (religion, governments, the machine of history), thereby perpetuating the romantic poet's privileging of the self.
		Although Simic has created a potentially new style with "Talking to the Ceiling," the poem's title diminishes his accomplishment, reducing the leaps and restraints of the poem to a disconnected monologue (one person "talking," not to another person but to "the ceiling"), when the poem itself leans toward polyphony and indeterminacy.
	bostonreview.net /BR24.3/henry.html (1273 words)

	NTW Poetry Breaks III, Charles Simic
		Charles Simic was born in Yugoslavia in 1938.
		Charles Simic has received the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the PEN Translation Prize, and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
		Simic is also known for his work as an essayist and as a translator.
	main.wgbh.org /wgbh/NTW/FA/TITLES/Poetry326.HTML (422 words)

	biography
		Simic writes many poems that relate to his distinctive experiences and let the reader now more about his past and his culture.
		Simic had one chance to be free from the world of hunger and poetry but many Yugoslavians did not get the chance to experience what he did.
		Simic overcame that obstacle by working night shifts to pay for college and studying and attending classes in the morning.
	project1.caryacademy.org /echoes/poet_Charles_Simic/defaultsimic.htm (603 words)

	Poetry Daily Feature: Charles Simic - The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Born in 1938 in Belgrade, Charles Simic is widely recognized as one of the most important and appealing American poets of our time.
		Simic received the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for The World Doesn't End, and Walking the Black Cat was a finalist for the National Book Award for poetry in 1996.
		Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, a sardonic humor all his own.
	www.poems.com /voicesim.htm (273 words)

	Charles D. Simic in Oak Park, Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In 1995, Simic was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest formal recognition of artistic merit in the United States.
		Simic was honored by OPRF High School with a Tradition of Excellence Award in 1991.
		Simic's first poems were published in 1959, when he was twenty-one.
	www.oprf.com /Simic (614 words)

	Verse: NEW! Review of Charles Simic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Indeed, Simic's collection transforms the familiar into something wonderfully strange and metamorphoses the small kindnesses of loving relationships into actions of mythological proportion.
		Concomitantly, while stigmatizing practicality, Simic exalts the imaginative and the non-sensical with poems such as “Venus in a Bath with Cockroaches.” In this poem, the narrator is walking the streets, looking at “windows either dark or lit” when his imagination takes over, allowing him to see through a drawn curtain
		Of course, Simic's referring to imagination as “that devil's helper” is tongue-in-cheek, as it is his imagination which makes the majority of his poems exquisitely entertaining and amusing.
	versemag.blogspot.com /2005/04/new-review-of-charles-simic.html (717 words)

	More info about the poet: Charles Simic - references bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on May 9th 1938.
		In 2000, Charles Simic was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
		Charles Simic in conversation with Michael Hulse - to be published August 2002 by Between The Lines, Interviews with Poets series.
	www.poemhunter.com /charles-simic/resources/poet-8034/page-1 (527 words)

	Charles Simic Criticism
		Simic does not write in a face-to-face confrontation with his subject and yet the effect is [direct and immediate]….
		Charles Simic's first book, What the Grass Says, has a kind of rock-bottomed simplicity, a simplicity that is spiritual enough to qualify, I think, as a unique clarity of heart.
		Most of Simic's poems are about looking at small, modest things and seeing the sense in which they are, indeed, compounded of the stuff of poetry….
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Charles_Simic (1229 words)

	The Morning News - Concerning My Neighbors, The Hicks, by Clay Risen
		Simic’s worldview can’t accommodate a profuse and widespread southern intellectual tradition—particularly one that is alive and strong—and so he reports as though it didn’t exist.
		Simic’s myopia is astounding—Fairhope is hardly indicative of the South, nor is the idea of a wealthy resort community’s being bereft of minorities unique to the region (in the North, I hear, they have entire islands like that).
		And Simic’s anti-Fairhope attack is a funny indictment coming from a man whose own place of residence, Strafford, N.H., is 98.48 percent white and only 0.14 percent fl, according to the 2000 U.S. Census (compared with Fairhope, which is 90.22 percent white and 7.79 percent fl).
	www.themorningnews.org /archives/opinions/concerning_my_neighbors_the_hicks.php (1414 words)

	Independent Reviews Site - Volume 2 Issue 5 (December 2001)
		Charles Simic: Both Plath and Sexton are great poets, but not because of what they had to confess-but almost despite their exhibitionism.
		To say that Charles Simic has an ear for language and an eye for detail would be like saying that a cat knows how to stalk prey quietly.
		Simic's life goes on from here, and he tells each amazing fact with the tone and pacing of someone recounting a much more idyllic life.
	www.theindependentreviewssite.org /v2_i5/v2_i5_index.html (2164 words)

	Amazon.de: Jackstraws: Poems: English Books: Charles Simic,Simic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		By now, Simic's matter-of-fact tossings off of the gothic, the banal and the absurd are so familiar that it's hard to know when he's putting us on.
		Simic's sly and precocious speakers are at their best when showing us "how quiet the world gets,/ When you roll your eyes back and look."
		The Belgrade-born Pulitzerwinning Simic is known for his absurdist take on America's weirder tableaux (hes a sweet David Lynch), and his 13th collection is no exception.
	www.amazon.de /Jackstraws-Poems-Charles-Simic/dp/0151004226 (869 words)

	Splendid: Departments: Bookshelf: The Voice at 3:00 A.M.
		His poems are friends of the night; they occupy a space between reality and dream, and capture Simic "playing at two o'clock in the morning in a dive holding a saxophone and playing for a bunch of drunks".
		To read Simic is to read an original the way that Kafka was, the way that Seuss was, the way that dead people (on recollection) are.
		Simic's fiction follows through on the assertions he makes in his essays and interviews; he connects the dots from his past and future by finding a way for the foundations of his childhood (like the animals of Serbian folklore) to face the issues he has struggled over:
	www.splendidezine.com /departments/bookshelf/bookshelf12604.html (721 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Even Less Than Usual (April 4 - April 10, 2002)
		Yugoslav and American, comedian and tragedian, Simic once wrote that "the religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: less is always more." But in his latest collection, Night Picnic, less feels like less as Simic struggles to kindle a lyric noir sodden with imagistic exhaustion.
		Though Simic titles the poem "Sunday Papers," little attention is paid to the paper itself suggesting, instead, the poet's Kafkaesque fascination with the silence and hypocrisy of contemporary life.
		Simic's greatest strength has always been his taut, dark-edged metaphors that appear from nowhere and accumulate and sharpen into a terrifying, twisted crescendo.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2002-04-04/book2.html (694 words)

	Bookslut \| My Noiseless Entourage by Charles Simic
		Charles Simic is an influential mainstream poet who dwells on the margin between "experimental" and "mainstream" in pomo poetic parlance.
		Simic’s voice is listened to and his influence, while not overwhelming, is important in the ways of American poetics and poetry.
		Charles Simic has been an important poet during his time over the past twenty or so years.
	www.bookslut.com /poetry/2005_06_005725.php (540 words)

	Cameo Appearance by Charles Simic - Poetry Archive
		The critic, Helen Vendler, has described Simic as a "lover of food who has been instructed in starvation," hinting at the pleasures and privations which inform his work.
		As one of the "Bombed and fleeing humanity" ('Cameo Appearance') Simic was instilled from an early age with a deep distrust of absolutist thought.
		Simic reads in a voice redolent of the history that haunts his poetry, an accent equal parts Serbian and New York twang.
	www.poetryarchive.com /poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=5562 (480 words)

	Amazon.com: Walking the Black Cat: Books: Charles Simic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Simic's familiar themes appear?scraps of an austere childhood in war-ravaged Europe, fascination with silence and anonymity, terrors and alienations of the commonplace, and conversations with philosophers and poets who feed his imagination.
		Simic's tone is flippant and unmistakably poetic; he can take the most ordinary situation and make a slick, subtle metaphysical comment about it ("On the Sagging Porch" is one of the best examples of this, as he takes a local president of the SPCA in a few beautiful stanzas makes Judas out of him).
		Simic, a hardcore imagist, is wonderfully precise in his use of concrete detail, which he then pulls completely out of the realm of reality by juxtaposing things which have no business being next to one another.
	www.amazon.com /Walking-Black-Cat-Charles-Simic/dp/015600481X (1356 words)

	Artful Dodge - Original Interviews - Charles Simic
		Charles Simic is currently Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.
		Simic: Well, the character who says that in the poem happens to be a philosopher friend of mine.
		Simic: Well, I didn't always say this-I'm sure there are interviews that I gave twenty years ago and even more recently where I used to say "I don't write for anybody but myself." But it's not true.
	www.wooster.edu /artfuldodge/interviews/simic.htm (5259 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Charles Simic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Simic's relationship to his countryman and its importance to his work cannot be overemphasized.
		Simic, Charles The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry Publisher: University of Michigan Press 2001.
		Subjects covered in the collection range from Simic's recollections of his childhood in WWII Yugoslavia, his work as a translator, his interest in surrealism and other aspects of modernism, to the various issues that concern the poets of his generation, 128 pages, with a gift inscription by the author.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Charles_Simic (1067 words)

	Charles Simic: Memory Piano, University of Michigan Press
		Memory Piano is the latest contribution to the Poets on Poetry series from the brilliant and prolific Charles Simic.
		Simic not only examines other writers' work but also explores the outer and inner reaches of the human condition.
		Charles Simic is an acclaimed poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher.
	www.press.umich.edu /titleDetailDesc.do?id=178651 (176 words)

	Charles Simic
		In 1953, however, Simic left Yugoslavia, and, after some months in Paris, went with his mother and brother to the United States, where his father had been working for the previous six years.
		Simic spent two years in the army, a period notable chiefly for the fact that it obliged him to reconsider the character of his writing, and caused him to destroy all of his early poems, which he'd come to feel were 'no more than literary vomit'.
		As well as these awards, Simic has been honoured with a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	www.interviews-with-poets.com /charles-simic/simic-note.html (489 words)

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