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Charles Simic


Born
in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
May 09, 1938

Died
January 09, 2023

Genre
Poetry


U.S. Poet Laureate, 2007-2008

Dušan Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, on May 9, 1938. Simic’s childhood was complicated by the events of World War II. He moved to Paris with his mother when he was 15; a year later, they joined his father in New York and then moved to Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, where he graduated from the same high school as Ernest Hemingway. Simic attended the University of Chicago, working nights in an office at the Chicago Sun Times, but was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1961 and served until 1963.

Simic is the author of more than 30 poetry collections, including The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems (1989), which received the Pulitzer Prize; Jackstraws (1999); Selected Poems: 1963-2003 (2004), which ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 25,637 ratings · 2,251 reviews · 255 distinct works • Similar authors
The World Doesn't End
4.13 avg rating — 3,031 ratings — published 1989 — 21 editions
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The Voice At 3:00 A.m.: Sel...
4.09 avg rating — 899 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions
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Dime-Store Alchemy
4.18 avg rating — 816 ratings — published 1992 — 21 editions
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Hotel Insomnia: Poems
3.93 avg rating — 833 ratings — published 1992 — 18 editions
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Walking The Black Cat
3.97 avg rating — 731 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions
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Sixty Poems
3.99 avg rating — 545 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
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The Lunatic: Poems
3.66 avg rating — 526 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions
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Scribbled in the Dark: Poems
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My Noiseless Entourage
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“Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.”
― Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy
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“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.”
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“He who cannot howl will not find his pack.”
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