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The Voice At 3:00 A.m.

By Charles Simic
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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, the sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the seemingly mundane minutiae of contemporary American culture, Simic matches meditations on spiritual concerns and the weight of history with a nimble wit, shifting effortlessly to moments of clear vision and intense poetic revelation.

Chosen as one of the New York Library's 25 Books to Remember for 2003, The Voice at 3:00 A. M. was also nominated for a National Book Award. The recipient of many prizes, Simic most recently received Canada's Griffin Prize. The poems in this collection--spanning two decades of his work--present a rich and varied survey of a remarkable lyrical journey.

In the Street
Beauty, dark goddess,
We met and parted
As though we parted not.
Like two stopped watches
In a dusty store window,
One golden morning of time.

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3.5
“This minimalistic cover and THAT title spoke to me on a subconscious level. This was my first acquaintance with Charles Simic and it was exquisite. The voice at 3 a.m., is a collection of selected poems that reads like a stream of uncensored and honest thoughts after midnight. Those midnight thoughts that are nothing but at the same time everything. Charles Simic's ability to spin the metaphors beautifully, using darkness mixed with irony, humour, eroticism, romanticism and finally surrealism is magnificent. His writing is eclectic and he portraits the haunting evilness that possesses the world with honesty and intertextuality to great authors and philosophers throughout the history. Almost every poem worked for me and it made me question why did it take me so long to find this amazing writer. I marked so many pages, there was really no point in marking anymore. I found something that I liked in every poem. I feel in love with certain sentences that were so beautifully put together I had to read and re-read them. His poems are imaginative and they make everyday mundane feel extraordinary. I realize that I'm gushing all over this brilliant writer. Just go read some of his poems!”

About Charles Simic

Charles Simic was a poet, essayist, and translator who was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1954. He published more than twenty books of poetry, in addition to a memoir and numerous books of translations for which he received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Wallace Stevens Award. In 2007, he served as poet laureate of the United States. He was a distinguished visiting writer at New York University and professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, where he taught since 1973. He died in January 2023 at the age of eighty-four.

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