#charles-simic — Public Fediverse posts

How to Be a Stone: Three Poems for Trusting Time

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/08/stone-time/

Sausages sautéed with potatoes and onions! It’s also highly advisable to have a philosopher or two on hand. A few pages of Plato while working on a baked ham. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus over a bowl of spaghetti with littleneck clams. We think best when we bring opposites together, when we realize that all these realities, one inside the other, are somehow connected. That’s how the wonder and amazement that are so necessary to both poetry and philosophy come about. A “truth” detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and noble sentiment ought to be first tested in the kitchen—and then in bed, of course.

~ Charles Simic

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https://constantine.name/2023/10/05/test-in-the-kitchen/

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"My Beloved" by Charles Simic: now this is a love poem! 🔥

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"A little white dog ran into the street
And got entangled with the soldiers' feet.
A kick made him fly as if he had wings.
That's what I keep seeing!
Night coming down. A dog with wings."

Opinion: Remembering poet Charles Simic : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/14/1149214853/opinion-remembering-poet-charles-simic

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Whether or not you are familiar with Charles Simic's poetry, this 2005 interview with him is well worth a read -- it's substantive and cuts a wide swath of reference to touchstones in 20th Century poetry.

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5507/the-art-of-poetry-no-90-charles-simic

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RIP #charlessimic His magic brew of dark humor, sensuality, tight cinematic scenes

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"I write to annoy God, to make Death laugh. I write because I can't get it right. I write because I want every woman in the world to fall in love with me." —Charles Simic

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DICIEMBRE
Nieva
y los vagabundos todavía
van
cargando con sus pancartas–

una proclama
el fin del mundo
la otra
los precios de una barbería local.

(Charles Simic)

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INTERVIEWER

From the outset you were drawn to subjects many people wouldn’t consider that poetic, like, say, cockroaches.

SIMIC

...Cockroaches appear for the simple reason that the places where I lived in New York were infested with them. They were the only visitors I had all day. I was brought up to be polite to strangers and help old ladies across the street, so I’d stop whatever I was doing and inquire about these roaches’ health.

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https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5507/the-art-of-poetry-no-90-charles-simic

Elegy

No one has seen me today
as I too have seen
no one
not even myself

here
bent as I was
intently
over the particular.

-- Charles Simic

https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/3896/eight-poems-charles-simic

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Heartbroken to learn Charles Simic has died, one of the great
poets, who I have always admired for his command of the line, & his sense of mysticism, somewhere between Stevens and Avila. In his final collection which just came out last year, Simic contemplated death and quiet, "one foot in the grave, of course." In a year where war has come back to East Europe, it's worth remembering the shadow of death that has always haunted Simic's work.

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Farewell to a great poet. The article is free. #Books #Bookstodon #Poem #Poetry #CharlesSimic https://nyti.ms/3CCyamx

Jackstraws was one of the first books of poetry I ever owned. At the time, I didn't have many books, and that made it matter so much more. RIP #CharlesSimic