Volume 50, Number 18 · November 20, 2003
Playing with Today
By Mark Ford
The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems
by Charles Simic
Harcourt, 177 pp., $25.00
The Metaphysician in the Dark
by Charles Simic
University of Michigan Press, 198 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Charles Simic in Conversation with Michael Hulse
Between the Lines, 120 pp., $17.95 (paper)
Charles Simic's collection of autobiographical fragments, A Fly in the Soup (2000), concludes with one of his earliest memories. It is 1942 or 1943, so he is four or five years old. Despite the war, operas are still being performed in Belgrade, and his mother has taken him to a performance of The Marriage of Figaro:
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