Charles Simic
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005.
From the Review
October 22, 2009: The High-Wire Artist
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
August 13, 2009: The Toad (poem)
July 2, 2009: He Understood Evil
1941: Godina koja se vraća [1941: The Year That Keeps Returning] by Slavko Goldstein
March 12, 2009: Connoisseurs of Cruelty
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman, translated from the Polishby Antonia Lloyd-Jone
Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity by Carla Del Ponte with Chuck Sudetic
Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know by Tim Judah
December 18, 2008: 'Everything Is a Mystery'
How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett
Messenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976–2006 by Ellen Bryant Voigt
October 9, 2008: The Nicest Boy in the World
Indignation by Philip Roth
May 29, 2008: Will They Accept Kosovo? (letter)
May 15, 2008: Among the Exiles (poem)
May 15, 2008: The Lovers (poem)
May 15, 2008: A 'Mind in Seven Places'
Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005 by Robert Hass
May 1, 2008: Hope for Kosovo (letter)
April 3, 2008: The Troubled Birth of Kosovo
January 17, 2008: The Muses' Darling
Tamburlaine a play by Christopher Marlowe, adapted and directed by Michael Kahn, produced by the Shakespeare Theatre Company
Edward II a play by Christopher Marlowe, directed by Gale Edwards, produced by the Shakespeare Theatre Company
December 20, 2007: The Renegade
December 6, 2007: A Great Twentieth-Century Poet
Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet's Life by Scott Donaldson
Edwin Arlington Robinson: Poems selected and edited by Scott Donaldson
October 25, 2007: The Cat Went Out for Good
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945–1975 by Robert Creeley
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005 by Robert Creeley
September 27, 2007: Night Watchman (poem)
April 26, 2007: The Philosophy of 3 AM
The Collected Poems, 1956–1998 by Zbigniew Herbert, edited and translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles, with additional translations by Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott and an introduction by Adam Zagajewski
March 1, 2007: When Night Forgets to Fall
The Curved Planks by Yves Bonnefoy, translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers, with a foreword by Richard Howard
November 30, 2006: The Elegist
White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946–2006 by Donald Hall, with a CD of poems read by the author
October 5, 2006: Back to the Beginning
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
August 10, 2006: Making It New
Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris Catalog of the exhibition by Leah Dickerman, with essays by Brigid Doherty, Dorothea Dietrich, Sabine T. Kriebel, Michael R. Taylor, Janine Mileaf, and Matthew S. Witkovsky
June 22, 2006: The Power of Ruins
Averno by Louise Glück
April 27, 2006: The Power of Reticence
Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop, edited and annotated by Alice Quinn
March 9, 2006: The Powers of Invention
Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon by Jodi Hauptman, with essays by Marina van Zuylen and Starr Figura
January 12, 2006: Salvation Through Laughter
Polish Memories by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston
Bacacay by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polishby Bill Johnston
Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polishby Danuta Borchardt, with a foreword by Susan Sontag
The World of Witold Gombrowicz,1904–1969 by Vincent Girond
A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polish by Benjamin Ivry
December 1, 2005: The Lights Are on Everywhere (poem)
November 3, 2005: The Spirit of Play
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera by Anne Carson
Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson
Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
August 11, 2005: The Solitary Notetaker
Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Anthea Bell
Unrecounted by W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Michael Hamburger, with lithographs by Jan Peter Tripp
May 12, 2005: Rx for American Poets
A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination by Angus Fletcher
April 7, 2005: Angels on the Laundry Line
Collected Poems, 1943–2004 by Richard Wilbur
February 24, 2005: The Memory Piano
Collected Poems by Donald Justice
November 4, 2004: The Wealth Poverty Buys
The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov edited by Robert J. Bertholf and Albert Gelpi
August 12, 2004: Down There on a Visit
June 24, 2004: Adam's Umbrella
How to Quiet a Vampire by Borislav Peki´c, translated from the Serbian by Stephen M. Dickey and Bogdan Rakic
March 11, 2004: Difference in Similarity
Departure by Rosanna Warren
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep by August Kleinzahler
The Singing by C.K. Williams
January 15, 2004: 'Cathay' (letter)
December 18, 2003: What Ez Could Do
Poems and Translations by Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth
The Pisan Cantos by Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth
October 23, 2003: The Golden Age of Hatred
The Hooligan's Return by Norman Manea, translated from the Romanian by Angela Jianu
September 25, 2003: Poetry in Unlikely Places
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans
July 3, 2003: Where the Fun Starts
The Paris Review Book of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, The Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World Since 1953 by the editors of The Paris Review, with an introduction by George Plimpton
May 1, 2003: Archives of Horror
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
February 27, 2003: Conspiracy of Silence
On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Anthea Bell
February 13, 2003: Tsvetaeva: The Tragic Life
Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922 by Marina Tsvetaeva, edited, translated, and with an introduction by Jamey Gambrell
Milestones by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated and with an introduction by Robin Kemball
February 13, 2003: Statement for Peace (letter)
January 16, 2003: 'The Water Hose Is on Fire'
Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952–1954 by Kenneth Koch
A Possible World by Kenneth Koch
October 24, 2002: The Image Hunter
Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams by Diane Waldman
September 26, 2002: You Can't Keep a Good Sonnet Down
American Sonnets by Gerald Stern
Swan Electric by April Bernard
A Short History of the Shadow by Charles Wright
July 18, 2002: The Always Vanishing World
The Pupil by W.S. Merwin
The Mays of Ventadorn by W.S. Merwin
May 9, 2002: The Mystery of Presence
Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski,translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh, Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams
Another Beauty by Adam Zagajewski,translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
April 11, 2002: Divine, Superfluous Beauty
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers edited by Tim Hunt
The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers,Volume Five: Textual Evidence and Commentary edited by Tim Hunt
February 28, 2002: I Know Where I'm Going
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
Memoir of the Hawk: Poems by James Tate
December 20, 2001: A World Gone Up in Smoke
New and Collected Poems, 1931–2001 by Czeslaw Milosz
To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays by Czeslaw Milosz, edited and with an introduction by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine
September 20, 2001: Paradise Lost
Literature and the Gods by Roberto Calasso, translated from the Italian by Tim Parks
July 19, 2001: That Elusive Something
The Strength of Poetry by James Fenton
May 31, 2001: The Thinking Man's Comedy
Bellow, A Biography James Atlas
April 12, 2001: Miraculous Mandarin
Collected Poems James Merrill, edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser
Familiar Spirits Alison Lurie
February 22, 2001: Intensive Care
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
Dance for Two by Alan Lightman
Good Benito by Alan Lightman
November 30, 2000: Tragicomic Soup
Your Name Here by John Ashbery
Other Traditions the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, by John Ashbery
October 19, 2000: Working for the Dictionary
Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky, edited by Ann Kjellberg
August 10, 2000: On the Night Train
The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention by Mark Strand
Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
Chicken, Shadow, Moon & more by Mark Strand
April 27, 2000: Forgotten Games
Joseph Cornell: Stargazing in the Cinema by Jodi Hauptman
January 20, 2000: Anatomy of a Murderer
Milosevic: Portrait of a Tyrant by Dusko Doder, by Louise Branson
October 21, 1999: Who Cares?
June 10, 1999: Sunday Papers (poem)
June 10, 1999: With Paper Hats Still on Our Heads (poem)
From New York Review Books
 | Dime-Store Alchemy Full of unexpected riches, Dime-Store Alchemy is both an entrancing meditation on the nature of art and a perfect introduction to a major American artist by a peer. |
 | The Late Mattia Pascal Nobel Prize–winner Luigi Pirandello is at once the most teasing and profound of modern masters, a connoisseur of ironies and impossibilities, and The Late Mattia Pascal is undoubtedly his most polished performance as a writer of fiction. |
Books by Charles Simic
The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems (2003)
Metaphysician in the Dark (2003)
Electoral Democracy (2003)
Charles Simic: Selected Early Poems (2000)