Orphan Factory collects writing by Charles Simic, hailed as one of our finest contemporary poets. A native of Yugoslavia who emigrated to America in his teens, Simic believes that tragedy, comedy, an
A Fly in the Soup is a book of memoirs. Charles Simic was born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and spent his childhood in a city bombed by the Nazis in 1941 and then by the Allies in 1944. He was jai
From one of America's foremost contemporary poets, a scintillating, surprising collection of essays on everything from poetry and art to the fine art of sausage-making
Simic, a poet, presents a collection of 23 of his critical essays and reviews of the work of April Bernard, Robinson Jeffers, Donald Justice, Pablo Neruda, Gerald Stein, Diane Waldman, Ezra Pound, Sus
