CRITICISM

Ford, Mark. “The Muse as Cook.” Times Literary Supplement, No. 4814 (7 July 1995): 15.

Review of The Unemployed Fortune-Teller and Frightening Toys that examines Simic's ideas about poetry.

Jackson, Richard. “Charles Simic's Mythologies.” In The Dismantling of Time in Contemporary Poetry, pp. 240-79. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1988.

Examines Simic's sense of mythic time.

Nash, Susan Smith. A review of Walking the Black Cat. World Literature Today 71, No. 4 (Autumn 1997): 793-94.

Praises Walking the Black Catas a coherent and unified presentation of Simic's major themes.

Simic, Charles. “Composition.” New Literary History IX, No. 1 (Autumn 1977): 149-51.

Brief essay in which Simic describes his poetics of composition.

Additional coverage of Simic's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 29-32R; Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 4; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 12, 33, 52, 61; DISCovering Authors Modules: Poets; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 105; Major 20th-Century Writers, Ed. 2.