Charles Simic is a powerhouse poet. Not only is he the fifteenth poet laureate of the United States, but Simic has also won the Pulitzer Prize and the Wallace Stevens Award for poetry.
In his latest installment, a poetry anthology titled “That Little Something”, Simic shows no sign of slowing down when it comes to writing poetry that both haunts and warms the heart of its readers.
Similar in regards to his other poetry anthologies, “That Little Something” is divided into multiple sections.
Each section a collected bundle of poems that share a congruent mood.
What is different in his latest work is that the majority of his poems share the same format.
Most are shaped into three or four stanzas consisting of four lines.
Although the poems of “That Little Something” are short in length — not one of them stretches from one page to another— what they say is universal.
From merely taking a stroll in a changed city still full of old memories in his opening poem, “Walking”, to writing about boredom and laziness, Charles Simic really addresses those little things in life that are so often merely glanced over or missed entirely.
In this aspect, Simic can be described as a people’s poet, for everything he writes about can be related to by any reader who ventures into Simic’s world.
His writing is crisp and concise, and he avoids using the snobbish, high-level vocabulary that many intellectual poets use, turning off and discouraging readers who are new to taking on poetry.
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