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Reading,
2003
Charles Simic |
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Current U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic reads and comments upon his poems “White Room,” “Mirrors at 4 a.m.,” and “The Friends of Heraclitus.” From the 2003 Key West Literary Seminar.
From KWLS 2003: The Beautiful Changes
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Carol Billings Rice says:
Thank you. Some one mentioned you in Aspen or perhaps at Wildacres in North Carolina. Home again in Louisiana.
I have been brought to you by forces and hints and people….I found your Black Cat on the bottom shelf at a used book store and when I read it…I did not feel alone. they only charged me 61 cents for it. Such grace so free ad abundant.
I have written a poem about you which is really about me and only , after all, about the One .
I do not feel alone.
Thank you.