Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He has published some twenty collections of poetry, six books of essays, a memoir, and numerous translations. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Simic’s most recent works are Voice at 3 a.m., a selection of later and new poems; Master of Disguises, new poems; and Confessions of a Poet Laureate, a collection of short essays that was published by New York Review Books as an e-book original. In 2007 Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
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New Hampshire Follies
February 23, 2012
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Late-Night Whispers from Poland
December 22, 2011
Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems
by Tadeusz Różewicz, translated from the Polish by Joanna Trzeciak, with a foreword by Edward Hirsch
Here
by Wisława Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak
Unseen Hand
by Adam Zagajewski, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
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Trouble Coming
August 18, 2011
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The Bright Side of the Balkans
August 18, 2011
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The Weird Beauty of the Well-Told Tale
May 26, 2011
The Tiger’s Wife
by Téa Obreht
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Grass: The Gold & the Garbage
March 24, 2011
The Box: Tales from the Darkroom
by Günter Grass, translated from the German by Krishna Winston
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Nothing Else
January 13, 2011
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Insomnia’s Philosopher
November 11, 2010
Searching for Cioran
by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston, edited by Kenneth R. Johnston, with a foreword by Matei Calinescu
On the Heights of Despair
by E.M. Cioran, translated from the Romanian and with an introduction by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
Tears and Saints
by E.M. Cioran, translated from the Romanian and with an introduction by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
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Getting the World into Poems
June 24, 2010
Ninety-Fifth Street
by John Koethe
Versed
by Rae Armantrout
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty
by Tony Hoagland
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Witness to Horror
February 11, 2010
Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War
by Mark Danner
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The High-Wire Artist
October 22, 2009
The Anthologist
by Nicholson Baker
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The Toad
August 13, 2009
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He Understood Evil
July 2, 2009
1941: Godina koja se vraća [1941: The Year That Keeps Returning] by Slavko Goldstein
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Connoisseurs of Cruelty
March 12, 2009
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
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‘Everything Is a Mystery’
December 18, 2008
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The Nicest Boy in the World
October 9, 2008
Indignation
by Philip Roth
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Will They Accept Kosovo?
May 29, 2008
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Among the Exiles
May 15, 2008
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The Lovers
May 15, 2008
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A ‘Mind in Seven Places’
May 15, 2008
Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005
by Robert Hass
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Hope for Kosovo
May 1, 2008
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The Troubled Birth of Kosovo
April 3, 2008
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The Muses’ Darling
January 17, 2008
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
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The Renegade
December 20, 2007
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A Great Twentieth-Century Poet
December 6, 2007
Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet’s Life
by Scott Donaldson
Edwin Arlington Robinson: Poems
selected and edited by Scott Donaldson
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The Cat Went Out for Good
October 25, 2007
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945–1975
by Robert Creeley
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005
by Robert Creeley
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Night Watchman
September 27, 2007
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The Philosophy of 3 AM
April 26, 2007
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
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When Night Forgets to Fall
March 1, 2007
The Curved Planks
by Yves Bonnefoy, translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers, with a foreword by Richard Howard
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The Elegist
November 30, 2006
White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946–2006
by Donald Hall, with a CD of poems read by the author
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Back to the Beginning
October 5, 2006
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
by Daniel Mendelsohn
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Making It New
August 10, 2006
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
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The Power of Ruins
June 22, 2006
Averno
by Louise Glück
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The Power of Reticence
April 27, 2006
Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments
by Elizabeth Bishop, edited and annotated by Alice Quinn
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The Powers of Invention
March 9, 2006
Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon
by Jodi Hauptman, with essays by Marina van Zuylen and Starr Figura
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Salvation Through Laughter
January 12, 2006
Polish Memories
by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston
Bacacay
by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polishby Bill Johnston
Ferdydurke
by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polishby Danuta Borchardt, with a foreword by Susan Sontag
Cosmos
by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt
A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes
by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polish by Benjamin Ivry
The World of Witold Gombrowicz,1904–1969 by Vincent Girond
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The Lights Are on Everywhere
December 1, 2005
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The Spirit of Play
November 3, 2005
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
by Anne Carson
Glass, Irony and God
by Anne Carson
Eros the Bittersweet
by Anne Carson
Men in the Off Hours
by Anne Carson
Autobiography of Red
by Anne Carson
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
by Anne Carson
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
by Anne Carson
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The Solitary Notetaker
August 11, 2005
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
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Rx for American Poets
May 12, 2005
A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination
by Angus Fletcher
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Angels on the Laundry Line
April 7, 2005
Collected Poems, 1943–2004
by Richard Wilbur
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The Memory Piano
February 24, 2005
Collected Poems
by Donald Justice
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The Wealth Poverty Buys
November 4, 2004
The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov
edited by Robert J. Bertholf and Albert Gelpi
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Down There on a Visit
August 12, 2004
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Adam’s Umbrella
June 24, 2004
How to Quiet a Vampire
by Borislav Pekiå«c, translated from the Serbian by Stephen M. Dickey and Bogdan Rakic
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Difference in Similarity
March 11, 2004
Departure
by Rosanna Warren
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
by August Kleinzahler
The Singing
by C.K. Williams
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‘Cathay’
January 15, 2004
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What Ez Could Do
December 18, 2003
Poems and Translations
by Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth
The Pisan Cantos
by Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth
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The Golden Age of Hatred
October 23, 2003
The Hooligan’s Return
by Norman Manea, translated from the Romanian by Angela Jianu
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Poetry in Unlikely Places
September 25, 2003
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans
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Archives of Horror
May 1, 2003
Regarding the Pain of Others
by Susan Sontag
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Conspiracy of Silence
February 27, 2003
On the Natural History of Destruction
by W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Anthea Bell
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Tsvetaeva: The Tragic Life
February 13, 2003
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
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Statement for Peace
February 13, 2003
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‘The Water Hose Is on Fire’
January 16, 2003
Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952–1954
by Kenneth Koch
A Possible World
by Kenneth Koch
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The Image Hunter
October 24, 2002
Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams
by Diane Waldman
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You Can’t Keep a Good Sonnet Down
September 26, 2002
American Sonnets
by Gerald Stern
Swan Electric
by April Bernard
A Short History of the Shadow
by Charles Wright
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The Mystery of Presence
May 9, 2002
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
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Divine, Superfluous Beauty
April 11, 2002
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
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I Know Where I’m Going
February 28, 2002
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
by Billy Collins
Memoir of the Hawk: Poems
by James Tate
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A World Gone Up in Smoke
December 20, 2001
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
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Paradise Lost
September 20, 2001
Literature and the Gods
by Roberto Calasso, translated from the Italian by Tim Parks
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That Elusive Something
July 19, 2001
The Strength of Poetry by James Fenton
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The Thinking Man’s Comedy
May 31, 2001
Bellow, A Biography
James Atlas
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Miraculous Mandarin
April 12, 2001
Collected Poems James Merrill, edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser
Familiar Spirits Alison Lurie
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Intensive Care
February 22, 2001
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman
Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
Good Benito by Alan Lightman
Dance for Two by Alan Lightman
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Tragicomic Soup
November 30, 2000
Your Name Here
by John Ashbery
Other Traditions
the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, by John Ashbery
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Working for the Dictionary
October 19, 2000
Collected Poems in English
by Joseph Brodsky, edited by Ann Kjellberg
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On the Night Train
August 10, 2000
The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention
by Mark Strand
Blizzard of One
by Mark Strand
Chicken, Shadow, Moon & more
by Mark Strand
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Anatomy of a Murderer
January 20, 2000
Milosevic: Portrait of a Tyrant
by Dusko Doder, by Louise Branson
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Who Cares?
October 21, 1999
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With Paper Hats Still on Our Heads
June 10, 1999
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Sunday Papers
June 10, 1999
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Why I Still Write Poetry
May 15, 2012
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The Bathroom Muse
April 17, 2012
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Age of Ignorance
March 20, 2012
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My Secret
February 10, 2012
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When Movies Kept Us Awake at Night
January 18, 2012
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Goodbye Serenity
December 5, 2011
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Was King Hammurabi a Commie?
November 3, 2011
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Take Care of Your Little Notebook
October 12, 2011
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A Reunion with Boredom
August 31, 2011
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The Lost Art of Postcard Writing
August 2, 2011
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Mladic's Arrest: What Did Serbia Know?
May 26, 2011
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A Country Without Libraries
May 18, 2011
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The New American Pessimism
March 10, 2011
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Where Is Poetry Going?
February 7, 2011
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Winter's Philosophers
January 4, 2011
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The Things I Learned at Dinner
November 24, 2010
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Reminiscing About the Night Before
October 27, 2010
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The Serbian Surprise
September 28, 2010
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America's Front Page
September 15, 2010
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The Hague's Balkan Confusion
July 26, 2010
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On Losing
July 19, 2010
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Last Words
July 7, 2010
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The Hague Convicts His Comrades, Mladic Enjoys Himself
June 11, 2010
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Strangers on a Train
May 18, 2010
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Confessions of a Poet Laureate
April 27, 2010
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The Blustering Blast
March 17, 2010
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Death List, Poem
February 22, 2010
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The Buster Keaton Cure
February 4, 2010
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On the Couch with Philip Roth, at the Morgue with Pol Pot
December 14, 2009
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Homeless on the Home Front
November 23, 2009
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Dairy Queen and Barbed Wire: The New Reality of US Occupation
November 5, 2009
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The Serbian Charade
October 27, 2009
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"That Domineering Creature Called the 'I'"
October 20, 2009
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Charles Simic Reads Selected Poems
October 20, 2008