Imatge de l'autor

Charles Simic (1938–2023)

Autor/a de The World Doesn't End

106+ obres 3,527 Membres 35 Ressenyes 9 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, immigrated with his family to Chicago in 1954, and was educated at New York University. Although his native language was Serbian, he began writing in English. Some of his work reflects the years he served in the U.S. Army (1961--63). He has been mostra'n més awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, a Guggenheim Foundation grant, and a National Endowment for the Arts award. "My poetry always had surrealistic tendencies, which were discouraged a great deal in the '50's," the poet said, but such tendencies were applauded in the 1970s and his reputation consequently flourished. His poems are about obsessive fears and often depict a world that resembles the animism of primitive thought. His work has affinities with that of Mark Strand and has in its turn produced several imitators. Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007 (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Library of Congress

Obres de Charles Simic

The World Doesn't End (1989) 333 exemplars
Walking the Black Cat (1996) 176 exemplars
Hotel Insomnia (1992) 147 exemplars
Jackstraws: Poems (1999) 141 exemplars
Sixty Poems (2007) 126 exemplars
My Noiseless Entourage: Poems (2005) 110 exemplars
Selected Poems, 1963-1983 (1985) 104 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 1992 (1992) — Editor — 101 exemplars
The Book of Gods and Devils (1990) 95 exemplars
That Little Something: Poems (2008) 91 exemplars
Unending Blues: Poems (1986) 84 exemplars
A Wedding in Hell (1994) 83 exemplars
The Monster Loves His Labyrinth (2008) 76 exemplars
Selected Early Poems (1999) 76 exemplars
The Lunatic: Poems (2015) 70 exemplars
Night Picnic: Poems (2001) 53 exemplars
Master of Disguises (2010) 52 exemplars
New British Poetry (2004) — Editor — 51 exemplars
Selected Poems (2004) 47 exemplars
Scribbled in the Dark: Poems (2017) 46 exemplars
Austerities: Poems (1982) 36 exemplars
Memory Piano (Poets on Poetry) (2006) 23 exemplars
Classic Ballroom Dances: Poems (1980) 20 exemplars
Confessions of a Poet Laureate (2010) 15 exemplars
No Land in Sight: Poems (2022) 14 exemplars
White (1972) 11 exemplars
Looking for Trouble (1988) 11 exemplars
Frightening Toys (1995) 9 exemplars
9 Poems (1989) 7 exemplars
5 blind men (1969) 7 exemplars
What the Grass Says (1967) 6 exemplars
Ääni aamulla kello kolme (2008) 5 exemplars
In the Beginning (1986) 4 exemplars
Four Yugoslav Poets (1970) 3 exemplars
Prodigy (2010) 2 exemplars
Il titolo 2 exemplars
Ploughshares Fall 1986 (1986) 2 exemplars
El mundo no se acaba (2013) 2 exemplars
Brooms : selected poems (1978) 2 exemplars
Hjulet snakkar når det går (1995) 2 exemplars
Avvicinati e ascolta (2021) 2 exemplars
Ludak 1 exemplars
Wo steckt Pepe? ( Ab 4 J.). (2000) 1 exemplars
Sin tierra a la vista (2023) 1 exemplars
Acércate y escucha (2020) 1 exemplars
Blues utan slut 1 exemplars
Una mosca en la sopa memorias (2010) 1 exemplars
Een hond met vleugels (1993) 1 exemplars
Blues o śnieżnym poranku (2015) 1 exemplars

Obres associades

El Difunt Mattia Pascal (1904) — Introducció, algunes edicions1,899 exemplars
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Col·laborador — 1,228 exemplars
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions903 exemplars
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Col·laborador — 819 exemplars
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (2003) — Col·laborador — 759 exemplars
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) — Col·laborador — 737 exemplars
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Col·laborador — 384 exemplars
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005) — Col·laborador — 357 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 22: Three Books Held Within By Magnets (2007) — Col·laborador — 331 exemplars
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Col·laborador — 325 exemplars
Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (2003) — Col·laborador — 293 exemplars
The Best American Essays 2008 (2008) — Col·laborador — 287 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 2001 (2001) — Col·laborador — 219 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 1999 (1999) — Col·laborador — 208 exemplars
The Art of Losing (2010) — Col·laborador — 191 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 2006 (2006) — Col·laborador — 189 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 2005 (2005) — Col·laborador — 172 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 1994 (1994) — Col·laborador — 169 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 1997 (1997) — Col·laborador — 166 exemplars
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Col·laborador — 160 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 1998 (1998) — Col·laborador — 160 exemplars
The Best American Essays 1995 (1995) — Col·laborador — 156 exemplars
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (1994) — Col·laborador — 153 exemplars
The Best American Essays 1997 (1997) — Col·laborador — 150 exemplars
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Col·laborador — 137 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 2008 (2008) — Col·laborador — 134 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 1993 (1993) — Col·laborador — 127 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 2010 (2010) — Col·laborador — 117 exemplars
Emergency Kit (1996) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions108 exemplars
Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Col·laborador — 100 exemplars
The Best American Essays 1988 (1988) — Col·laborador — 93 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 2015 (2015) — Col·laborador — 91 exemplars
Granta 124: Travel (2013) — Col·laborador — 89 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 2017 (2017) — Col·laborador — 89 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 2011 (2011) — Col·laborador — 84 exemplars
Not for Bread Alone: Writers on Food, Wine, and the Art of Eating (1992) — Col·laborador — 70 exemplars
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Col·laborador — 68 exemplars
1941: The Year That Keeps Returning (2007) — Introducció, algunes edicions66 exemplars
Saul Steinberg: Illuminations (2006) — Introducció, algunes edicions65 exemplars
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Col·laborador — 62 exemplars
Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology (1999) — Col·laborador — 48 exemplars
Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology (1983) — Editorial Consultant — 39 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series) (2022) — Redactor/compositor — 35 exemplars
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Col·laborador — 32 exemplars
No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets (2003) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All (1980) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
Stories from the Blue Moon Café IV (2005) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
The Paris Review 167 2003 Fall (2003) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan, Volume 03 (2013) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Little Mr. Prose Poem: Selected Poems of Russell Edson (2022) — Pròleg — 8 exemplars
Thomas Campion: Poems Selected by Charles Simic (2007) — Editor — 7 exemplars
The Paris Review 84 1982 Summer (1982) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
The Paris Review 192 2010 Spring (2010) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Antaeus No. 23, Autumn 1976 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Ironwood 28 Dickinson/Spicer: A Special Issue — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Kayak 8 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Curiosando tra i nuovi arrivi in biblioteca, la mia attenzione è stata catalizzata da questo libretto di 150 pagine scarse. Sono rimasta colpita dal titolo: Il mostro ama il suo labirinto. Mi è subito venuto in mente il Minotauro, che, rinchiuso nel Labirinto perché Minosse si vergognava di lui, si suppone odiasse la sua prigione. Invece, Simic ci dice che lo ama: una sorta di Sindrome di Stoccolma dei luoghi. Forse il Minotauro è grato a Minosse per averlo nascosto dalle pubbliche manifestazioni di orrore nei suoi confronti. O forse è solo felice di poter svolgere il suo ruolo di mostro con l'approvazione del re.

Comunque sia, Il mostro ama il suo labirinto è un taccuino, un insieme di pensieri sparsi del poeta. Si va dai suoi ricordi personali a pensieri fulminei (e poco lusinghieri) su politici e intellettuali. A Simic piace stravolgere il modo comune di vedere le cose (e qui ricorda un po' Il dizionario del diavolo di Ambrose Bierce) e spesso ci ricorda la bellezza della corporeità e della carnalità che la religione e il cosiddetto amore puro amano demonizzare e svilire in virtù della presunta superiorità dell'anima e degli alti sentimenti.

”Ti fanno male” mi dicono i miei amici. Come se fra me e l'immortalità si frapponessero soltanto un paio di salcicce.

Non dimentichiamoci che anche Romeo e Giulietta ogni tanto scoreggiavano e si grattavano il culo.

La bellezza di un attimo fuggente è eterna.
… (més)
 
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lasiepedimore | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Aug 28, 2023 |
Un libro con in copertina una fotografia di Saul Leiter parte molto bene, dunque io lo compro a scatola chiusa, ignaro dell'autore e immaginando un saggio su temi di estetica o storia dell'arte. Scopro - prima ammissione di ignoranza - che Simic è un poeta. Leggendo i primi scritti, mi ritrovo in un mondo di filosofia letta di notte, salsicce, blues strazianti, casualità con cui fare i conti, fotografie misteriose. E le prime 100 pagine circa volano con gran piacere, fra un riferimento a Emily Dickinson e uno a William Carlos Williams (che conosco solo grazie a Paterson di Jarmusch - seconda ammissione di ignoranza). Le pagine successive - che non sono poche - diventano un po' più frammentarie in quanto maggiormente legate a recensioni (di esposizioni o testi). Emergono riflessioni nuovamente vitali - per esempio quelle autobiografiche o lo scritto su Cornell - ma su un tono minore rispetto a quello della per me folgorante apertura di libro. A ogni modo, lettura piena di libertà, ironia e meraviglia, che lascia almeno un paio di compiti a casa (leggere le poesia di Simic - e anche quelle di Williams e Vicente Huidobro, magari).… (més)
 
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d.v. | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | May 16, 2023 |
The poems in No Land in Sight include those whose vivid imagery imprinted on my brain.

Tango

Slinky black dress
On a wire hanger
In an empty closet
its door slid open

To catch the draft
From an open window
And make it dance
As in a deep trance

The empty hangers
Clicking in unison
Like knitting needles
Or disapproving tongues.

from No Land in Sight by Charles Simic

And poems of insight into the common experience.

In the Lockdown

I might have gone stir-crazy,
If not for my memories,
Those lifelong companions
Cooped up with me for months
And eager to console me

With stories of men and women
Who withdraw from the world,
And endured years of solitude
And dark nights of the soul
Thriving in some hole-in-the-wall

Where they found lasting peace
Obeying a voice in their heads
Telling them to just sit quietly,
So that the quiet can teach them
Everything they ought to know.

from No Land in Sight by Charles Simi

There are personal memories of a life unlike my own.

Where Do My Gallows Stand?

Outside the window
I looked out as a child
In an occupied city
Quiet as a graveyard.

from No Land in Sight by Charles Simic

Many of the poems are reductions that pack a punch bigger than their size would indicate. Charles Simic writes of quietly falling snow, dogs barking in the night, the hopefulness of an old woman going to the mailbox. Commonplace visions reveal depths of emotion, a few overheard words paint a portrait.

The opening poem is Fate, consisting of one line: “everyone’s blind date.” We ruefully chuckle.

At first I was puzzled by these poems, seemingly so direct and transparent. As I read on, I realized their beauty and truth. I will seek out his earlier work.

I received a free book from A A Knopf. My review is fair and unbiased.
… (més)
 
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nancyadair | Aug 29, 2022 |
I gave the book four stars, but I think I'm being kind. The only reason I recommend the book is for its imagry. Other than that, if you the sort who doesn't want to read the abstract, then I suggest you don't buy the book.

 
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ennuiprayer | Hi ha 5 ressenyes més | Jan 14, 2022 |

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Obres
106
També de
64
Membres
3,527
Popularitat
#7,201
Valoració
3.9
Ressenyes
35
ISBN
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Llengües
11
Preferit
9

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