The Voice at 3:00 A.M. (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Simic
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, War, Storms, Folklore, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Yugoslavia or Yugoslavians, Urban life
Charles Simic has been an important voice in American poetry for more than thirty years. His publications total more than sixty books, many of them volumes of poetry. It is significant that he has also published many translations of poetry from Central European countries, an interest which he surely owes to his birth and early life in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In fact, although Simic has lived in the United States since 1953, his poetry has always displayed a sort of European sensibility that sets it apart from much other American writing. This volume, composed of poems from 1986 to 2003,...
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