Sixty Poems

Simic, Charles

ISBN 10: 0156035642 / ISBN 13: 9780156035644

Published by Mariner Books (edition 1), 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sixty Poems
• Publisher: Mariner Books (edition 1)
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156035642
• ISBN 13: 9780156035644
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Here are sixty of Charles Simic's best known poems, collected to celebrate his appointment as the fifteenth Poet Laureate of the United States.

About the Author

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.