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Charles Simic

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Charles Simic, poet, essayist, and translator, was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1954. Since 1967, he has published twenty books of his own poetry, in addition to a memoir; the essay collection The Life of Images; and numerous books of translations for which he has received many literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, the MacArthur Fellowship, and the Wallace Stevens Award. Simic is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and in 2007 was chosen as poet laureate of the United States. He is emeritus professor at the University of New Hampshire, where he has taught since 1973, and is distinguished visiting writer at New York University.

Charles Simic Books

No Land in Sight book cover

No Land in Sight

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Come Closer and Listen book cover

Come Closer and Listen

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Vasko Popa book cover

Vasko Popa

Vasko Popa
The Public Library book cover

The Public Library

Robert Dawson
Scribbled in the Dark book cover

Scribbled in the Dark

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Dark Things book cover

Dark Things

Novica Tadic
The Book of Blam book cover

The Book of Blam

Aleksandar Tisma
The Life of Images book cover

The Life of Images

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The Lunatic book cover

The Lunatic

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The Hour Between Dog and Wolf book cover

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

Laure-Anne Bosselaar
1941: The Year That Keeps Returning book cover

1941: The Year That Keeps Returning

Slavko Goldstein
The Monster Loves His Labyrinth book cover

The Monster Loves His Labyrinth

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Night Picnic book cover

Night Picnic

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Confessions of a Poet Laureate book cover

Confessions of a Poet Laureate

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Master of Disguises book cover

Master of Disguises

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The Voice At 3:00 A.m. book cover

The Voice At 3:00 A.m.

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Walking The Black Cat book cover

Walking The Black Cat

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The World Doesn't End book cover

The World Doesn't End

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Unending Blues book cover

Unending Blues

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