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Charles Simic
Charles Simic, the fifteenth Poet Laureate of the United States, was born Dusan Simic on May 9th 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia; his childhood was overshadowed by the Second World War, and images of bombings and
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Charon's Cosmology
With only his dim lantern
To tell him where he is
And every time a mountain
Of fresh corpses to load up
Take them to the other side
Where there are plenty more
I’d say by now he must be confused
As to which side is which
I’d say it doesn’t matter
Poetry Trivia
Question:
Which of Shakespeare's sonnets provided the title for the first English translation of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past?
Answer
Sonnet 30. "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up remembrance of things past."
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