Remembering Charles Simic ...Middle East

When asked by the poet and critic Mark Ford for The Paris Review who the major poets of his era were, and for his thoughts on the state of contemporary poetry, Charles Simic refused to take the bait. Unlike Robert Lowell, who was known, unasked, to rank his contemporaries (Lowell was first, Berryman second, then came the rest), Simic always seemed to float bemusedly through his evergreen success. “Ask me in a hundred years,” he responded. This is the only reasonable response.Despite that being the best answer, because as has been proven time and again poets never know their era, it is worth noting that his answer is also an impossibility. We can safely assume Ford won’t be around in a hundre

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