Poet Laureate Simic
Posted on August 13, 2007 by joefelso
Ramming Charles Simic up to his new title—Poet Laureate—makes me smirk. Poets like Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Wordsworth, and even Colley Cibber seem perfectly fine for honorifics and poems composed on state occasions, but Charles Simic falls the other way. Reading his poetry elicits feelings of familiarity, though not always comfort, and his [...]
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