Charles Simic

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POETRY

• What the Grass Says, Kayak (San Francisco, CA), 1967.
• Somewhere among Us a Stone Is Taking Notes, Kayak (San Francisco, CA), 1969.
• Dismantling the Silence, Braziller (New York, NY), 1971.
• White, New Rivers Press, 1972, revised edition, Logbridge Rhodes (Durango, CO), 1980.
• Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk, Braziller (New York, NY), 1974.
• Biography and a Lament, Bartholemew's Cobble (Hartford, CT), 1976.
• Charon's Cosmology, Braziller (New York, NY), 1977.
• Brooms: Selected Poems, Edge Press (Christchurch, NZ), 1978.
• School for Dark Thoughts, Banyan Press (Pawlet, VT), 1978, sound recording of same title published by Watershed Tapes (Washington, DC), 1978.
• Classic Ballroom Dances, Braziller (New York, NY), 1980.
• Austerities, Braziller (New York, NY), 1982.
• Weather Forecast for Utopia and Vicinity, Station Hill Press (Barrytown, NY), 1983.
• Selected Poems, 1963-1983, Braziller (New York, NY), 1985.
• Unending Blues, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1986.
• Nine Poems, Exact Change (Cambridge, MA), 1989.
• The World Doesn't End, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1989.
• The Book of Gods and Devils, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1990.
• Hotel Insomnia, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1992.
• A Wedding in Hell: Poems, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1994.
• Frightening Toys, Faber & Faber (New York, NY), 1995.
• Walking the Black Cat: Poems, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1996.
• Jackstraws: Poems, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1999, revised edition, Faber & Faber (New York, NY), 2000.
• Selected Early Poems, Braziller (New York, NY), 2000.
• Night Picnic, Harcourt (New York, NY), 2001.
• The Voice at 3:00 a.m.: Selected Late and New Poems, Harcourt (New York, NY), 2003.
• Selected Poems: 1963-2003, Faber and Faber (London), 2004.
• Aunt Lettuce, I Want to Peek under Your Skirt, Bloomsbury USA (New York, NY), 2005.
• My Noiseless Entourage: Poems, Harcourt (New York, NY), 2005.
• Monkey Around, 2006.
• Sixty Poems, Harvest Books (Washington, PA) 2008.
• That Little Something: Poems, Harcourt (New York, NY), 2008.
• The Monster Loves His Labyrinth, Ausable Press, second printing (Port Townsend, WA), 2008.

Contributor of poetry to more than one hundred magazines, including New Yorker, Poetry, Nation, Kayak, Atlantic, Esquire, Chicago Review, New Republic, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, and Harvard Magazine.

TRANSLATOR

• Ivan V. Lalic, Fire Gardens, New Rivers Press (Moorhead, MN), 1970.
• Vasko Popa, The Little Box: Poems, Charioteer Press (Washington, DC), 1970.
• Four Modern Yugoslav Poets: Ivan V. Lalic, Branko Miljkovic, Milorad Pavic, Ljubomir Simovic, Lillabulero (Ithaca, NY), 1970.
• (And editor, with Mark Strand) Another Republic: Seventeen European and South American Writers, Viking (New York, NY), 1976.
• Vasko Popa, Homage to the Lame Wolf: Selected Poems, Field (Oberlin, OH), 1979.
• (With Peter Kastmiler) Slavko Mihalic, Atlantis, Greenfield Review Press (Greenfield Center, NY), 1983.
• Tomaz Salamun, Selected Poems, Viking (New York, NY), 1987.
• Ivan V. Lalic, Roll Call of Mirrors, Wesleyan University Press, 1987.
• Aleksandar Ristovic, Some Other Wine or Light, Charioteer Press (Washington, DC), 1989.
• Stavko Janevski, Bandit Wind, Dryad Press (College Park, MD), 1991.
• Novica Tadic, Night Mail: Selected Poems, Oberlin College Press (Oberlin, OH), 1992.
• Horse Has Six Legs: Contemporary Serbian Poetry, Graywolf Press (Saint Paul, MN), 1992.
• Aleksander Ristovic, Devil's Lunch, Faber & Faber (New York, NY), 1999.
• Radmila Lazic, A Wake for the Living, Graywolf Press (Saint Paul, MN), 2003.
• Gunter Grass, The Gunter Grass Reader, Harcourt (New York, NY), 2004.

OTHER

• The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1985.
• Wonderful Words, Silent Truth, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1990.
• Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell, Ecco (New York, NY), 1992.
• The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1994.
• Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1997.
• A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2000.
• Metaphysician in the Dark (essays), University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2003.
• (Editor, with Don Paterson) New British Poetry, Graywolf Press (Saint Paul, MN), 2004.

Simic's works have been translated into several languages, including French, Dutch, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, and German. Contributor to anthologies, including Young American Poets, Follett, 1968; Contemporary American Poets, World Publishing, 1969; Major Young American Poets, World Publishing, 1971; America a Prophesy, Random House, 1973; Shake the Kaleidoscope: A New Anthology of Modern Poetry, Pocket Books, 1973; The New Naked Poetry, Bobbs-Merrill, 1976; The American Poetry Anthology, Avon, 1976; A Geography of Poets, Bantam, 1979; Contemporary American Poetry, 1950-1980, Longman, 1983; The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Norton, 1983; Harvard Book of American Poetry, Harvard University Press, 1985; and The Harper American Literature, Volume 2, Harper, 1987. Author of introductions, Homage to a Cat: As It Were: Logscapes of the Lost Ages, by Vernon Newton, Northern Lights, 1991, and Prisoners of Freedom: Contemporary Slovenian Poetry, edited by Ales Debeljak, Pedernal, 1992.