Sixty Poems

To celebrate Simics appointment as the15th Poet Laureate of the United States, 60 of his best-known poems are collected in this work.

Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1938, and immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1954, at the age of 16. Recently retired from University of New Hampshire, where he taught American literature and creative writing, he was appointed the 15th Poet Laureate of the United States in August 2007. He has published more than 20 collections of poetry, as well as essay collections, translations, and a memoir. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 and held a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant from 1984 to 1989. The Academy of American Poets has just named him winner of the Wallace Stevens Award.

From Unending Blues,1986
Toward Nightfall	p. 3
Against Whatever It Is That's Encroaching	p. 6
From The Book of Gods and Devils,1990
St. Thomas Aquinas	p. 9
Factory	p. 11
Shelley	p. 12
The Devils	p. 15
The White Room	p. 17
The Big War	p. 19
Paradise	p. 20
In the Library	p. 21
From Hotel Insomnia,1992
The Prodigal	p. 25
Hotel Insomnia	p. 26
The Tiger	p. 27
A Book Full of Pictures	p. 29
Evening Walk	p. 30
Romantic Sonnet	p. 31
The Old World	p. 32
Country Fair	p. 33
From A Wedding in Hell,1994
Paradise Motel	p. 37
The Clocks of the Dead	p. 38
Leaves	p. 39
Transport	p. 40
Crazy About Her Shrimp	p. 41
Reading History	p. 42
Empires	p. 44
Mystics	p. 45
Via del Tritone	p. 46
The Secret	p. 47
From Walking the Black Cat,1996
Mirrors at 4 a.m.	p. 51
Cameo Appearance	p. 52
What the Gypsies Told My Grandmother While She Was Still a Young Girl	p. 53
Little Unwritten Book	p. 54
Slaughterhouse Flies	p. 55
An Address with Exclamation Points	p. 56
Entertaining the Canary	p. 57
Ghosts	p. 58
At the Cookout	p. 60
Club Midnight	p. 62
Pastoral Harpsichord	p. 63
Have You Met Miss Jones?	p. 64
From Jackstraws,1999
The Soul Has Many Brides	p. 69
Mummy's Curse	p. 70
The Common Insects of North America	p. 71
The Toy	p. 72
From Night Picnic,2001
Unmade Beds	p. 79
The One to Worry About	p. 80
Sunday Papers	p. 81
The Altar	p. 82
My Father Attributed Immortality to Waiters	p. 83
The Lives of the Alchemists	p. 84
From The Voice at 3:00 a.m.,2003
Grayheaded Schoolchildren	p. 87
Serving Time	p. 88
Late September	p. 89
From My Noiseless Entourage,2005
Self-Portrait in Bed	p. 93
To Dreams	p. 94
My No
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