[New-Poetry] Birthday boy/Simic

[David Graham]

> On May 9, 2006, at 7:02 PM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:

> 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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In Simic's case, didn't he write that Hitler & Stalin were his travel  
agents?  And that one of his earliest memories was being hurled from  
the crib by the shockwaves of a bombing?

I remember Richard Hugo remarking once that, as a bombadier in WWII,  
he had dropped bombs on the young Charles Simic in Belgrade.  That  
was when Hitler's bombadiers weren't  doing the same thing, of course.




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