Event: June 2016
Sun
5/6/16
06:30 PM
Poetry Talk: Charles Simic - The Subject is Your Beloved
Talk
Charles Simic USA writer, in conversation with Michael Krüger GER writer, about his life and work.
Charles Simic (born in Belgrade in 1938) emigrated with his family from Yugoslavia to Chicago in 1953. He became a major American poet who, as he says himself, writes and dreams in a language he speaks with an accent. In his work, he amalgamates various influences from Emily Dickinson and Theodore Roethke, from European Surrealism to the Serb poets Ivan V. Lalić and Vasko Popa. His poems are profound structures soaked in myth; but - “No myth without a funny bone.”
The event will have English-German interpreting available.
Project leaders: Alexander Gumz and Matthias Kniep
Academy of Arts
Clubraum
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
Entrance fee:
6/4 EUR
Tickets online
Vorverkauf in der Akademie der Künste:
Tel 030. 200 57-1000/-2000
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten
Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Täglich 10:00–19:00