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Charles Simic

Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.

Selected bibliography

  • That Little Something: Poems (2008)
  • Memory Piano (2006)
  • My Noiseless Entourage (2005)
  • Night Picnic (2001)
  • Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs (1997)
  • Looking for Trouble (1997)
  • Walking the Black Cat (1996)
  • Displaced Person (1996)
  • A Wedding in Hell (1994)
  • Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell (1992)
  • Hotel Insomnia (1992)
  • The World Doesn’t End (1989)
  • Unending Blues (1986)
  • Another Republic (1984)
  • Charon’s Cosmology (1977)
  • Jackstraws (1970)
  • Somewhere Among Us a Stone is Taking Notes (1970)

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In the LRB archive

Some Sort of a Solution · 20 March 2008

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  • The Canon by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Stratis Haviaras  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 1 November 2007

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 6 September 2007

subscriber-only content Extracts from Notebooks 1996-2006 · 10 May 2007

subscriber-only content Five Poems · 16 November 2006

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘The Elevator Is Out of Order’ · 22 June 2006

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 5 January 2006

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 2 June 2005

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 5 August 2004

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 20 May 2004

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 4 March 2004

subscriber-only content Three Poems · 24 July 2003

subscriber-only content Four Poems · 6 February 2003

11 September · 4 October 2001

subscriber-only content Three Poems · 22 February 2001

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 5 October 2000

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Two Poems · 7 March 2002

 not available in archive Three Poems · 23 August 2001

 not available in archive Four Poems · 27 April 2000

 not available in archive Two Poems · 11 November 1999

 not available in archive A Suspect in the Eyes of Super-Patriots · 18 March 1999

  • Collected Poems of Vasko Popa translated by Anne Pennington

 not available in archive Three Poems · 1 October 1998

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