Charles Simic Named U.S. Poet Laureate
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet succeeds Donald Hall and joins a list of distinguished poets who have served in the position, including Ted Kooser, Louise Gluck, Billy Collins, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass, Rita Dove and Robert Penn Warren."...
"Simic, who lives in Strafford New Hampshire, arrived in the United States in 1954 and said he started writing poetry in high school to get girls' attention."
If you have to sit around and wait for friends and loved ones to get out from work or school, bring a copy of Robert Pinsky's The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition (Paperback). It is a gorgeous way to wait. Lose yourself in several lines of poetry, and you will be happy that you are sitting alone in the cold car or on a park bench.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Thanks to a Lady, We Have Laureate
