Volume 46, Number 10 · June 10, 1999

'The Voice at 3 AM'

By Helen Vendler
Jackstraws
by Charles Simic

Harcourt Brace, 85 pp., $22.00

Ever since Charles Simic came to America from Belgrade in 1954, at the age of sixteen, he has been transmitting, in a rush of books of poetry and prose, images deriving from the traumatic no man's land of his youth:



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