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The Best American Poetry 1992
An anthology of poetry features the best work work of poets, many well known, many never before published. Simultaneous.
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352 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
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Charles Simic
265 books474 followersU.S. Poet Laureate, 2007-2008
Dušan Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, on May 9, 1938. Simic’s childhood was complicated by the events of World War II. He moved to Paris with his mother when he was 15; a year later, they joined his father in New York and then moved to Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, where he graduated from the same high school as Ernest Hemingway. Simic attended the University of Chicago, working nights in an office at the Chicago Sun Times, but was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1961 and served until 1963.
Simic is the author of more than 30 poetry collections, including The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems (1989), which received the Pulitzer Prize; Jackstraws (1999); Selected Poems: 1963-2003 (2004), which received the International Griffin Poetry Prize; and Scribbled in the Dark (2017). He is also an essayist, translator, editor, and professor emeritus of creative writing and literature at the University of New Hampshire, where he taught for over 30 years.
Simic has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His other honors and awards include the Frost Medal, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the PEN Translation Prize. He served as the 15th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and was elected as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2001. Simic has also been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Dušan Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, on May 9, 1938. Simic’s childhood was complicated by the events of World War II. He moved to Paris with his mother when he was 15; a year later, they joined his father in New York and then moved to Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, where he graduated from the same high school as Ernest Hemingway. Simic attended the University of Chicago, working nights in an office at the Chicago Sun Times, but was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1961 and served until 1963.
Simic is the author of more than 30 poetry collections, including The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems (1989), which received the Pulitzer Prize; Jackstraws (1999); Selected Poems: 1963-2003 (2004), which received the International Griffin Poetry Prize; and Scribbled in the Dark (2017). He is also an essayist, translator, editor, and professor emeritus of creative writing and literature at the University of New Hampshire, where he taught for over 30 years.
Simic has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His other honors and awards include the Frost Medal, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the PEN Translation Prize. He served as the 15th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and was elected as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2001. Simic has also been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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June 30, 2023
Love getting to review a book that has almost no reviews.
I typically read super modern poetry, or like Whitman and earlier poetry. It was wonderful to step into 1992 and get a feel for the work that was being produced then. There were some seriously magnificent poems in here that have me inspired and wanting to look deeper into some of these authors books. Very nice.
I typically read super modern poetry, or like Whitman and earlier poetry. It was wonderful to step into 1992 and get a feel for the work that was being produced then. There were some seriously magnificent poems in here that have me inspired and wanting to look deeper into some of these authors books. Very nice.
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July 31, 2010poetry
March 1, 2016
Outstanding collection. Probably the best of the Best American Poetries in the '90s and definitely my favorite. With the unequaled incisiveness and charm of a true master, Thylias Moss' 'An Anointing' ushered me into an adult understanding of modern poetry. I was thirteen.
Years later, when I began to take the craft of writing more seriously, I tracked down this anthology again and was stunned by the power and beauty of this poem, as well as some of the other excellent ones in this anthology. Alice Fulton's 'A Little Heart to Heart With the Horizon,' Stephen Dunn's 'Smiles,' and Mekeel McBride's painfully magnificent 'All Hallows' Eve' all stand out to me as extraordinary.
Highly recommended.
Years later, when I began to take the craft of writing more seriously, I tracked down this anthology again and was stunned by the power and beauty of this poem, as well as some of the other excellent ones in this anthology. Alice Fulton's 'A Little Heart to Heart With the Horizon,' Stephen Dunn's 'Smiles,' and Mekeel McBride's painfully magnificent 'All Hallows' Eve' all stand out to me as extraordinary.
Highly recommended.
February 22, 2016
One of the best Poetry books I have read to date!
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