[New-Poetry] Birthday boy/Simic

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/9/2006 11:11:35 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
halvard at earthlink.net writes:

But it's  too bad he got stuck in that very  
recognizable style he found fairly early.



I;m fond of Simic's poetry (& prose poety...that's
poetry too), but I do see a certain similarity
in the world-view of the post-WWII Eastern European
poets/writers. No matter what the topic, they
can't help themselves but to widen the aperture
of the piece to include some socio-political comment,
generally tilting toward the negative or world-weary.
Of course cultures that lived through two world
wars in less than a half-century, have certainly
been wounded psychically. Style can be kind
of scar.
Finnegan 
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