Prodigy

Prodigy - Charles Simic

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Prodigy

Recording used by permission of the BBC - read by the author for Postscript / Contemporary American Poets, broadcast on 20th July, 1999.

Charles Simic

Charles Simic (b. 1938 – d. 2023) grew up in Belgrade in former Yugoslavia, a childhood in which “Hitler and Stalin taught ...

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