Charles Simic

Charles Simic (1938 - Present)

Charles Simic (born May 9, 1938) is an American poet. Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, he immigrated to the USA in 1953. His first collection of poems What the Grass Says, was published in 1966. Since that time he has written prolifically and, in 1990, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his collection The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems.

Poems By Charles Simic

Miscellaneous

Against Winter (2 Comments »)
Errata (1 Comment »)
Heights Of Folly (No Comments »)
Mummy’s Curse (No Comments »)
Read Your Fate (2 Comments »)
Summer In The Country (1 Comment »)
Talking To Little Birdies (1 Comment »)
The School Of Metaphysics (No Comments »)
The Wooden Toy (No Comments »)
Wherein Obscurely (No Comments »)

A Wedding In Hell

. Paradise Motel (No Comments »)
. Pocket Theatre (1 Comment »)
. The Oldest Child (No Comments »)
. The Supreme Moment (1 Comment »)
. This Morning (No Comments »)

AGNI Number 53

. The Bather (No Comments »)

Charon's Cosmology

. Eyes Fastened With Pins (1 Comment »)

Hotel Insomnia

. A Book Full of Pictures (1 Comment »)
. Clouds Gathering (No Comments »)
. Country Fair (1 Comment »)
. Hotel Insomnia (No Comments »)

Jackstraws

. Private Eye (1 Comment »)
. To The One Upstairs (No Comments »)

Return to a Place Lit By a Glass of Milk

. Watermelons (3 Comments »)

Selected Early Poems

. The Partial Explanation (3 Comments »)

The Book of Gods and Devils

. The Initiate (No Comments »)
. The White Room (No Comments »)

The Major Young Poets

. Coal (No Comments »)
. How To Psalmodize (No Comments »)
. Inner Man (1 Comment »)
. Poem Without A Title (1 Comment »)

Walking the Black Cat

. The Something (No Comments »)

White: A New Version

. White (No Comments »)