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Charles Simic Reading From His Poems
| Author |
Charles Simic |
| Price |
£12.99 <convert> |
| Biblio |
1905556837;
pp. 0 |
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| Binding |
CD |
| Published |
January 2009 |
| Publisher |
The Poetry Archive |
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| Charles Simic (b. 1938) grew up in Belgrade in former Yugoslavia, a childhood in which "Hitler and Stalin taught us the basics". A new life began in 1954 when he and his mother were allowed to join his father in the United States. Simic attended school in Chicago and then began working at the Chicago Sun Times. During this period he started to write and publish poetry and was a passionate self-educator, attending many night-classes. After two years national service in the US army, Simic settled in New York, got married and continued to write, his first collection appearing in 1967. In the intervening period he has published over sixty books, amongst them Charon's Cosmology, nominated for a National Book Award, The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Jackstraws which was included on the New York Times' shortlist of Notable Books of the Year. Since 1973 he has worked at the University of New Hampshire where he is currently Professor of English.
1 Butcher Shop 0.54
2 Cockroach 0.44
3 Fork 0.35
4 The Partial Explanation 0.46
5 Prodigy 1.18
6 Shelley 3.17
7 Factory 1.36
8 Folk Songs 0.48
9 Country Fair 0.59
10 The Clocks of the Dead 1.14
11 Transport 0.34
12 Reading History 1.30
13 Cameo Appearance 1.17
14 Ghosts 1.50
15 At the Cookout 1.25
16 Club Midnight 1.12
17 Pastoral Harpsichord 1.00
18 The Soul Has Many Brides 1.07
19 Unmade Beds 0.50
20 The One To Worry About 1.28
21 Cherry Blossom Time 1.11
22 The Altar 0.54
23 My Father Attributed Immortality to Waiters 1.01
24 Views from a Train 1.14
25 Serving Time 1.39
26 Cabbage 0.43
27 Paradise 1.41
28 In the Library 1.15
29 The Tiger 2.02
30 Evening Walk 1.26
31 The Old World 1.17
32 Empires 0.55
33 The Tower 1.17
34 Late Call 0.53
35 Emily's Theme 1.07
36 The Friends of Heraclitus 1.36
Total length of the recording 45.00
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