Charles Simic New US Poet Laureate

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In 1973, Simic began teaching inspired writing and literature at the University of New Hampshire,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], where he is immediately professor emeritus. In addition to his 18 books of poetry, he has written essays and translated poetry. For his book of prose poems titled The World Doesn't End, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1990. He served as a MacArthur fellow from 1984-1989.
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Working at the Chicago Sun Times to pay for tuition, Simic began studies at the University of Chicago merely later finished his Bachelors degree at New York University in 1966, behind a stint in the U.S. Army from 1961 to 1963. In appending to writing poetry, he translated poetry and served as editorial assistant at Aperture, a journal of photography, from 1966 until 1974. In 1964, he marital Helen Dubin, a mainstream designer; the pair has two children.
James H. Billington,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], librarian at the Library of Congress, announced on August 2 namely Charles Simic will begin his duties as Poet Laureate this autumn, when the poet ambition open the literary sequence on October 17, 2007, by giving a reading of his work.
Simic claims he began prose poetry in tall educate to impress girls, a claim made by numerous poets, including sometime laureate Ted Kooser. Simic graduated from the same high school that Ernest Hemmingway heeded in Oak Park, Illinois.
Simic was connate May 9, 1938, in Yugoslavia. His dad came to USA and later sent for Simic and his mommy who had relocated to Paris. Simic arrived in the U.S. in 1954 at age 16. He has been an American inhabitant for 36 annuals, and he currently resides in New Hampshire.
About being named poet laureate, Simic says, "I am especially touched and gloried to be selected for I am an emigrant lad who didnt talk English until I was 15."
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Wanted to Impress Girls
Simic has too served as a literary reviewer, and he has written a memoir captioned A Fly in the Soup. He penned a memoir of Joseph Cornell, a surrealist sculptor. Simics imminent book, That Little Something, is scheduled apt appear in February 2008.
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His book Walking the Black Cat made the finalist account of the National Book Award for Poetry in 1996. He was awarded the Griffen Prize for his Selected Poems: 1963-2003.
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James Billington has said about Simics poetry, "The scope of Charles Simics imagination is apparent in his stunning and unusual imagery. He knobs language with the skill of a main craftsman, but his poems are accessible accessible, often thinking and amazing. He has given us a wealthy body of highly organized poetry with shades of darkness and flashes of ironic humor."