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=== Poetry === ;Collections {{div col}} * 1967: {{cite book <!--|author=Simic, Charles |others=Prints by Joan Abelson--> |title=What the Grass Says: Poems |location=San Francisco |publisher=Kayak |date=1967 <!--|lccn=81483299-->}}<ref name=loccs>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/poetry/more_simic.html |title=Former Poet Laureate Charles Simic |publisher=Library of Congress <!--|access-date=May 24, 2013-->}}</ref> * 1969: {{cite book <!--|author=Simic, Charles |author-mask=1--> |title=Somewhere Among Us a Stone Is Taking Notes |date=1969}}<ref name=loccs/> * 1971: ''Dismantling the Silence''<ref name=loccs/> * 1972: ''White''<ref name=loccs/> * 1974: ''Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk''<ref name=loccs/> * 1976: ''Biography and a Lament''<ref name=loccs/> * 1977: ''Charon's Cosmology''<ref name=loccs/> * 1978: ''Brooms: Selected Poems''<ref name=loccs/> * 1978: ''School for Dark Thoughts''<ref name=loccs/> * 1980: ''They Forage at Night'' * 1980: ''Classic Ballroom Dances''<ref name=loccs/> * 1982: ''Austerities''<ref name=loccs/> * 1983: ''Weather Forecast for Utopia & Vicinity: Poems, 1967–1982''<ref name=loccs/> * 1985: ''Selected Poems, 1963–1983''<ref name=loccs/> (1986 Pulitzer Prize finalist) * 1986: ''Unending Blues''<ref name=loccs/> (1987 Pulitzer Prize finalist) * 1989: ''Pyramids and Sphinxes'' * 1989: ''Nine Poems''<ref name=loccs/> * 1989: ''[[The World Doesn't End|The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems]]''<ref name=loccs/> (1990 [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]) * 1990: ''The Book of Gods and Devils''<ref name=loccs/> * 1992: ''Hotel Insomnia''<ref name=loccs/> * 1994: ''A Wedding in Hell: Poems''<ref name=loccs/> * 1995: ''Frightening Toys''<ref name=loccs/> * 1996: ''Walking the Black Cat: Poems'',<ref name=loccs/> (National Book Award in Poetry finalist) * 1997: {{cite book |title=Looking for Trouble: Selected Early and More Recent Poems |date=1997 |url=https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571192335-looking-for-trouble.html |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=978-0-571-19233-5}} * 1999: ''Jackstraws: Poems''<ref name=loccs/> ([[The New York Times Book Review|''The New York Times'' Notable Book of the Year]]) {{ISBN|978-0-15-601098-6}} * 1999: {{cite book |title=Selected Early Poems |isbn=978-0-8076-1456-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/selectedearlypoe0000simi |last1=Simic |first1=Charles |date=1999}} * 2001: ''Night Picnic'',<ref name=loccs/> {{ISBN|978-0-15-100630-4}} * 2003: ''The Voice at 3:00 am: Selected Late and New Poems''<ref name=loccs/> {{ISBN|978-0-15-603073-1}} * 2004: ''Selected Poems: 1963–2003'' (winner of the 2005 International [[Griffin Poetry Prize]]) * 2005: ''Aunt Lettuce, I Want to Peek Under Your Skirt''<ref name=loccs/> (illustrated by Howie Michels) * 2005: ''My Noiseless Entourage: Poems''<ref name=loccs/> {{ISBN|978-0-15-101214-5}} * 2008: ''60 Poems'',<ref name=loccs/> {{ISBN|978-0-15-603564-4}} * 2008: ''That Little Something: Poems''<ref name=loccs/> {{ISBN|978-0-15-603539-2}} * 2008: ''The Monster Loves His Labyrinth: Notebooks'', {{ISBN|978-1-931337-40-3}} * 2010: {{cite book |title=Master of Disguises, Poems |date=2010 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=978-0-547-50453-7}} * 2013: {{cite book |title=New and Selected Poems: 1962–2012 |date=2013 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=978-0-547-92830-2}} * 2013: {{cite book |title=Selected Early Poems |date=2013 |publisher=George Braziller Inc |isbn=978-0-8076-1620-8}} * 2015: {{cite book |title=The Lunatic |date=2015 |publisher=HarperCollins/Ecco |isbn=978-0-06-236474-6}} * 2017: {{cite book |title=Scribbled in the Dark |date=2017 |publisher=HarperCollins/Ecco |isbn=978-0-06-266117-3}} * 2019: {{cite book <!--|author=Simic, Charles--> |title=Come Closer and Listen: New Poems |location=New York |publisher=Ecco |date=2019 |isbn=978-0-06-290846-9}} * 2022: {{cite book <!--|author=Simic, Charles--> |title=No Land in Sight: Poems |publisher=Knopf |date=2022 |isbn=978-0-593-53493-9}} {{div col end}} ;Translations {{div col}} * 1970: [[Ivan V. Lalić]], ''Fire Gardens''<ref name=loccs/> * 1970: [[Vasko Popa]], ''The Little Box: Poems''<ref name=loccs/> * 1970: ''Four Modern Yugoslav Poets: [[Ivan V. Lalić]], [[Branko Miljkovic]], [[Milorad Pavić (writer)|Milorad Pavić]], [[Ljubomir Simović]]''<ref name=loccs/> * 1979: [[Vasko Popa]], ''Homage to the Lame Wolf: Selected Poems''<ref name=loccs/> * 1983: Co-translator, Slavko Mihalić, ''Atlantis''<ref name=loccs/> * 1987: [[Tomaž Šalamun]], ''Selected Poems''<ref name=loccs/> * 1987: [[Ivan V. Lalić]], ''Roll Call of Mirrors''<ref name=loccs/> * 1989: Aleksandar Ristović, ''Some Other Wine or Light''<ref name=loccs/> * 1991: [[Slavko Janevski]], ''Bandit Wind''<ref name=loccs/> * 1992: [[Novica Tadić]], ''Night Mail: Selected Poems''<ref name=loccs/> * 1992: ''Horse Has Six Legs: Contemporary Serbian Poetry''<ref name=loccs/> * 1999: Aleksandar Ristović, ''Devil's Lunch''<ref name=loccs/> * 2003: Radmila Lazić, ''A Wake for the Living''<ref name=loccs/> * 2004: [[Günter Grass]], ''The Günter Grass Reader''<ref name=loccs/> * 2019: [[Vasko Popa]], Selected Poems<ref name="Popa Simic 2019 p. ">{{cite book | last=Popa | first=Vasko | last2=Simic | first2=Charles | title=Vasko Popa : selected poems | publisher=New York Review Books | publication-place=New York | date=2019 | isbn=978-1-68137-336-2 | oclc=1037899168 | page= }}</ref> {{div col end}} ;List of poems {|class='wikitable sortable' |- !width=25%|Title !|Year !|First published !|Reprinted/collected |- |Left out of the Bible |2021 |{{cite journal |author=Simic, Charles |date=May 31, 2021 |title=Left out of the Bible |journal=The New Yorker |volume=97 |issue=14 |pages=45 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/31/left-out-of-the-bible <!--|access-date=2022-10-31-->}} | |- |Windy day |2021 |{{cite journal |author=Simic, Charles |date=September 20, 2021 |title=Windy day |journal=The New Yorker |volume=97 |issue=29 |pages=65 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/20/windy-day <!--|access-date=2023-07-03-->}} |}
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