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100 1 $aSimic, Charles,$d1938-
245 12 $aA fly in the soup :$bmemoirs /$cCharles Simic.
260 $aAnn Arbor :$bUniversity of Michigan
Press,$cc2000.
300 $a182 p., [12] p. of plates :$bill., ports. ;$c22
cm.
490 1 $aPoets on poetry.
520 1 $a"In this memoir by one of America's most revered
contemporary poets, Charles Simic recounts his journey from
a childhood in war-torn Yugoslavia to his coming-of-age
experiences as a young bohemian in New York City, then as a
reluctant draftee in the United States Army. Simic's early
years in Belgrade, a city bombed first by the Nazis in 1941
and then by the Allies in 1944, recall memories of bombs,
broken glass, and visits from the Gestapo. His family is
jailed for trying to flee the newly Communist Yugoslavia and
finally manages to emigrate in 1953. Their first stop is
Paris, where the teenaged Simic, craving the forbidden,
slips out for his first taste of French nightlife and nudie
shows. In New York and Chicago, Simic attends high school,
and his intense interests in art, poetry, jazz, film - and
women - ripen into fully formed passions. The memoir
continues with recollections of Simic's induction into the
Army, the publication of his first poem, and family dinners
with his highly opinionated but much beloved Uncle Boris."
"The pieces in this collection, previously scattered in
various books and literary magazines, have been arranged
chronologically to create an unusual memoir of exile and
refugee life, a collage of stories, anecdotes, meditations,
and poetic fragments from one of the most barbaric periods
of the last century. A Fly in the Soup is both the story of
a young man whose travel agents were Hitler and Stalin and
an autobiography of the childhood and coming of age of one
of the most respected contemporary American poets."--BOOK
JACKET.
600 10 $aSimic, Charles,$d1938-
650 0 $aPoets, American$y20th century$vBiography.
830 0 $aPoets on poetry.
