Library: Washington University (St. Louis, MO)
Last Loaded: 07/19/2004
MARC Timestamp: 03/24/2001
Control Number Org.: OCLC DEDUP
Control Number: 44013836
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020 $a0472111507 (alk. paper)
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100 1 $aSimic, Charles,$d1938-
245 12 $aA fly in the soup :$bmemoirs /$cCharles Simic.
260 $aAnn Arbor [Mich.] :$bUniversity of Michigan
Press,$cc2000.
300 $a182 p., [12] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c21 cm.
440 0 $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.
520 8 $aHis 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.
520 8 $aThe 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.".
520 8 $a"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.
520 8 $aA 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.
590 $aPurchased by the Carl Neureuther Endowed Book
Fund.
600 10 $aSimic, Charles,$d1938-
650 0 $aPoets, American$y20th century$vBiography.
791 2 $aCarl Neureuther Endowed Book Fund.$4donor.
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902 $a010324AB0701
