Wednesday, April 24, 2013
New and Selected Poems  Charles Simic

Prolific poet Charles Simic has published a new book of poetry. Professor Simic was born in Belgrade and emigrated to the United States in 1954. He is the author of many books of poetry and prose. Among other honors, he has received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, a MacArthur Grant, and served as the Poet Laureate of the United States in 2007–2008. Professor Simic teaches in the MFA Program in Writing at UNH.

New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

by Charles Simic
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013

From publisher's website: For over fifty years, Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant and innovative poetic imagery, his sardonic wit, and a voice all his own. He has been awarded nearly every major literary prize for his poetry, including a Pulitzer and a MacArthur grant, in addition to serving as the poet laureate of the United States in 2007 and 2008.

In this new volume, he distills his life’s work, combining for the first time the best of his early poems with his later works—including nearly three dozen revisions—along with seventeen new, never-before-published poems. Simic’s body of work draws inspiration from a range of topics, from the inscrutability of ordinary life to American blues, from folktales to marriage and war.

Consistently exciting and unexpected, the nearly four hundred poems in this volume represent the best of one of America’s most distinguished and original poets.

“It takes just one glimpse of Charles Simic’s work to establish that he is a master, ruler of his own eccentric kingdom of jittery syntax and signature insight.” -Los Angeles Times

Available at publisher's website and major retailers.