| Renowned Poet Charles Simic to Visit ACC Even after twenty collections, the poetry of Charles Simic remains utterly unpredictable as he continues to juggle the limitless possibilities of verse. In his latest collection, The Voice at 3:00 A.M. (Harcourt), Simic mines material from the seemingly mundane minutia of con¬temporary American culture and meditates on spiritual concerns and the weight of history with a supple wit, effortlessly shifting to moments of clear vision and intense poetic revelation. With these poems, Simic continues to straddle darkness and light with the use of brilliant imagery, social, political, and morallucidity, an uncanny ability to render the ordinary extraordinary, and a sardonic humor all his own. Included in The Voice at 3:00 A.M. are some twenty new poems, as well as poems selected from Unending Blues (986), The Book of Gods and Devils (990), Hotel Insomnia(1992),A Wedding in Hell (994), Walking the Black Cat (1996),Jackstraws (1999), and Night Picnic (2001). Born in Belgrade, Charles Simic is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of our time. Simic received the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for The World Doesn't End, and Walking the Black Cat was a finalist for the National Book Award for poetry in 1996. Simic has received many other awards as well, including a PEN International Award for Translation, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the Harriet Monroe Award, - --- -¬ - --- ¬ and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, MacArthur, Ingram Merrill, and Fulbright foundations. He has also been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives in New Hampshire. --Reprinted by permission from Harcourt
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| Wednesday, November 12, 2003 • 7:30pm-9pm • Library Auditorium • Crandall Library |
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