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  <name><![CDATA[Charles Simic]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Charles Simic born Dušan Simić) is a Serbian-American poet and the 15th Poet Laureate of the United States. He is co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. Simic is the 2007 recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. This $100,000 (US) prize recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Belgrade</hometown>  <born_at>05/09/1938</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The World Doesn't End]]></title>
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  <published>1989</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Walking the Black Cat]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Hotel Insomnia]]></title>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Selected Early Poems]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charles Simic]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Jackstraws: Poems]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charles Simic]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Wedding in Hell]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dime-Store Alchemy]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charles Simic]]></name>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[My Noiseless Entourage: Poems]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charles Simic]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sixty Poems]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charles Simic]]></name>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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