The New York Times announced today that Charles Simic will be named the nation’s new Poet Laureate. James Billington, the Librarian of Congress said, “He’s very hard to describe, and that’s a great tribute to him. His poems have a sequence that you encounter in dreams, and therefore they have a reality that does not correspond to the reality that we perceive with our eyes and ears.â€?
Simic won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 and was the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry as well as essays, criticism and a memoir. Many of his poems express the horrors of World War II. See here for a good overview of his career and a discussion of his various works.
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