Lannan Readings & Conversations
Charles Simic
with David LehmanWednesday March 14 2007
Click the Play button (triangle) to listen to the Charles Simic Introduction and Reading.
Click the Play button (triangle) to listen to the Charles Simic Conversation with David Lehman.
Charles Simic has published over sixty books of poetry as well as many translations of French, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovenian poetry. He was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and moved with his family to the United States in 1953. His poetry first appeared in The Chicago Review . The poet Seamus Heaney describes Simic's work as, "Surrealist, and therefore comic, but with a specific gravity in his imagining that manages to avoid the surrealist penalty of weightlessness."
David Lehman is the editor of Oxford Book of American Poetry, published in 2006, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, and the author of seven books of poems, most recently When a Woman Loves a Man.
R&C Calendars
Explore Lannan
Linh Dinh
with Charles AlexanderWednesday February 27 2008 Streaming Audio and Podcast Now Available Continued...
From Readings & Conversations