Charles Simik ( born Charles Simic , birth name Dushan Simic , Serb. Dusan Symiћ ; born May 9, 1938 , Belgrade ) is an American poet of Serbian descent. US 2007 Laureate Poet .
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| Birth name | Dusan Simic Serb. Dushan Symiћ |
| Date of Birth | May 9, 1938 ( 81) |
| Place of Birth | Belgrade , Yugoslavia |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Occupation | poet , essayist |
| Language of Works | English |
| Debut | “What the Grass Says” ( 1967 ) |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize ( 1990 ), Wallace Stevens Prize ( 2007 ) |
| Awards | Guggenheim Scholarship (1972) [1] MacArthur Scholarship ( 1984 ) |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Bibliography
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Simik was born in Yugoslavia, and childhood in a war-ravaged country shaped his outlook on life: according to Simik, he is “a kind of product of history, and his travel agents were Stalin and Hitler” [2] . Together with his mother he emigrated to the United States in 1954 in reunion with his father, an electrical engineer who managed to move to the United States from Italy, where he found the end of World War II . He grew up in Chicago , studied at New York University , where he received a bachelor's degree.
Simik began to compose poems almost immediately after the initial mastery of the English language and published the first poem in the journal Chicago Review at the age of 21, and in subsequent publications of selected poems he included poems written since 1963 [3] , - during this period Simik passed the army he served in the United States in West Germany and experienced the first creative crisis, rejecting his early works, in which he felt too much influence of Pound , Eliot and Cummings [4] .
Subsequently, Simik developed an individual style, about which criticism noted: “although his poems are full of everyday objects, it seems that the poet looks into everyday life to show a glimpse of something infinite” [4] . According to another specialist:
Criticism speaks of him as a surrealist, and he always denies this all the time, saying that the world around is so amazing and diverse that, whatever we write, it will be somehow connected with reality [5] .
Along with poetry, Simik published literary and philosophical essays, and also translated Serbian poets into English. He also edited the famous American magazine Paris Review . In addition, since the early 1970s. Simic taught American literature and literary work at the University of New Hampshire . In this state, he lives.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 1990, Wallace Stevens Prize of the American Academy of Poets for 2007. In the same year he was awarded the title of US poet laureate [6] . The director of the Library of Congress, James Billington , responsible for this appointment, noted that Simik’s poetry is “very difficult to define,” but at the same time “both deep and accessible.” [2]
Simik’s poems were translated into Russian by Anatoly Kudryavitsky [7] [8] , Isabella Mizrahi [8] , Dmitry Kuzmin [9] , Dmitry Vedenyapin [10] , essays - Vladimir Gandelsman [11] and others.
Bibliography
- What the Grass Says - 1967
- Somewhere Among Us A Stone Is Taking Notes - 1969
- Dismantling The Silence - 1971
- White - 1972
- Return To A Place Lit By A Glass Of Milk - 1974
- Charon's Cosmology - 1977
- School For Dark Thoughts - 1978
- Classic Ballroom Dances - 1980
- Austerities - 1982
- Weather Forecast for Utopia & Vicinity: Poems 1967-1982 - 1983
- Unending Blues - 1986
- The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems - 1989 (awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1990)
- The Book of Gods and Devils - 1990
- Hotel Insomnia - 1992
- Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell - 1993 ISBN 1-59017-170-5
- A Wedding in Hell - 1994
- Walking the Black Cat - 1996
- Jackstraws - 1999 ( New York Times Newspaper Evaluation Book of the Year) ISBN 0-15-601098-4
- Night Picnic: Poems - 2001 ISBN 0-15-100630-X
- A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs - 2002 ISBN 0-472-08909-9
- The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems - 2003 ISBN 0-15-603073-X
- Selected Poems: 1963-2003 - 2004 (in 2005 awarded the International Griffin Prize)
- My Noiseless Entourage: Poems - 2005 ISBN 0-15-101214-8
- Aunt Lettuce, I Want To Peek Under Your Skirt - 2005 (illustrated by Howie Michels)
- Monkey Around - 2006
- Sixty Poems - 2008 ISBN 0-15-603564-2
- That Little Something: Poems - 2008 ISBN 0-15-603539-1
- Monster Loves His Labyrinth - 2008 ISBN 1-931337-40-3
- Army: Memoir. In preparation - 2008
- Master of Disguises - 2010
Notes
- ↑ Charles Simic . John Simon Guggenheim Foundation . gf.org. Date of appeal April 15, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 Motoko Rich. Charles Simic, Surrealist With Dark View, Is Named Poet Laureate // The New York Times , 2.08.2007. (eng.)
- ↑ Adam Kirsch. Books in Brief: Poetry; Arriving Inside the Object // The New York Times , 04.16.2000. (eng.)
- ↑ 1 2 DJR Bruckner. The Smiles and Chills In the Poetry Of Charles Simic // The New York Times , 05/28/1990. (eng.)
- ↑ Man of the Day - American poet Charles Simik // Radio Liberty , August 3, 2007.
- ↑ United States Laureate Poets
- ↑ Charles Simic. Poems translated by Anatoly Kudryavitsky // "Foreign Literature" , 1996, No. 10.
- ↑ 1 2 Charles Simik. Poems // "Foreign literature" , 1997, No. 10.
- ↑ Charles Simic. Translated from English by Dmitry Kuzmin // Mitin Journal , vol. 58 (1999).
- ↑ Charles Simic. Poems // "Foreign Literature" , 2003, No. 1.
- ↑ Charles Simic. On the night train: On the poetry of Mark Strand // New Youth , 2001, No. 3 (48).
Links
- Poems and Biography
- poets.org Biography
- Video recording of a speech at Boston University, 2009
- Simik in the " Journal Hall " (1) and Simik in the " Journal Hall " (2)
- Simik in the Moshkov library 23 poems in per. Anatoly Kudryavitsky , a brief biography