Simic, Charles

Charles Simic, poet, essayist, and translator, was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1954. Since 1967, he has published twenty books of his own poetry, in addition to a memoir; the essay collection The Life of Images; and numerous books of translations for which he has received many literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, the MacArthur Fellowship, and the Wallace Stevens Award.Simic is a frequent contributor toThe New York Review of Booksand in 2007 was chosen as poet laureate of the United States. He is emeritus professor at the Univer...