Simic, Charles 2001
My touch is on the highest mast.
It cries at four in the morning
For a lantern to be lit
On the rim of the world.
– Charles Simic, “The Body”
Listen to Charles Simic’s 2001 reading for the Poetry Center of Chicago:
Vintage poster of Russell Edson and Charles Simic giving a joint reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.
They want to hear something heroic and poetic, and I tell them that I was just another high school kid who wrote poems in order to impress girls, but with no ambition beyond that.
– Charles Simic, “Why I Still Write Poetry”
Read this interview with Charles Simic from the Paris Review:
Paris Review – The Art of Poetry No. 90, Charles Simic
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