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    Reading of selected poetry

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    2007 U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, the author of eighteen collections of poetry, is also an essayist, translator, editor, and professor emeritus of creative writing and literature at the University of New Hampshire. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for his book of prose poems The World Doesn\u27t End, and his 1996 collection, Walking the Black Cat, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. His most recent poetry volume is That Little Something (2008). Simic held a MacArthur Fellowship from 1984-1989, and has also held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. In 2007, the same day he was appointed Poet Laureate, Simic received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry

    Reading of selected poetry

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    2007 U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, the author of eighteen collections of poetry, is also an essayist, translator, editor, and professor emeritus of creative writing and literature at the University of New Hampshire. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for his book of prose poems The World Doesn\u27t End, and his 1996 collection, Walking the Black Cat, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. His most recent poetry volume is That Little Something (2008). Simic held a MacArthur Fellowship from 1984-1989, and has also held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. In 2007, the same day he was appointed Poet Laureate, Simic received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry

    Assessing drive tourists' preferences and motivations: A case study of Bella Coola, British Columbia

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    The objectives of this research were to: 1) Gain an understanding of the drive tourism market in the Bella Coola Valley and particularly visitors’ characteristics, length of stay, and behaviour whilst in the valley. This would be done by implementing a quantitative self completed survey. 2) Trial a qualitative research tool which will seek to explore the psychographic profiles of the RV market. This research tool would consist of in-depth, open ended interviews and focus groups.Final Report of Findings. -- Prepared by Dr. Anne Hardy and Jovan Simic, Resource Recreation and Tourism Program, University of Northern British Columbia, for: BC Ferries, Central Coast Regional District, Bella Coola Valley Tourism, BC Real Estate Partnering Fun

    Ivana Milojevic, 'Breathing: Violence In, Peace Out', Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2013, ISBN 9 7807 0224 9693, 296 pp., $39.95

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    This is a rare type of book that interweaves personal narrative with critical commentary on violent conflict and the possibilities of peace. The author, while reflective and mindful of her narrative, does not shy away from the bite of reality. As she says in the introduction:Full Tex

    Myth Revisited in The World Doesn’t End, by Charles Simic

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    Este artículo realiza un acercamiento al libro de poemas en prosa The World Doesn’t End, del poeta serbio-norteamericano Charles Simic. En el poemario se advierten dos rasgos fundamentales que contribuyen a configurar la visión del mundo que Simic desarrolla a lo largo de su extensa producción: por un lado, la creación de un universo de ribetes surrealistas y, por otro, una nostalgia por el pasado como tiempo perdido, recuperable solamente a través de la imaginación. The World Doesn’t End, publicado en Estados Unidos en 1990, fue traducido al español por Mario Lucarda en España, y ha llegado nuestro país solamente mediante versiones de algunos de los poemas en prosa en publicaciones periódicas. Es por eso que se propone, al final del artículo, una breve selección de textos traducidos al español, para contribuir a la difusión de este autor que manifiesta, con su obra, una de las múltiples voces de la poesía norteamericana contemporánea.This article analyzes Serbian-American author Charles Simic’s prose poems in The World Doesn’t End.The book shows two traits which help transmit Simic’s view of the world: on the one hand, his surrealistic imagery and, on the other, a certain nostalgia for the past as a time that can be recovered through the imagination. The World Doesn’t End was first published in the U.S.A. In 1990, and later translated into Spanish by Mario Lucarda, in Spain. The poems in this book can be found in Argentina only partially, in some journals and magazines. That is why at the end of this article there is a brief selection with translations of our own, in order to make Simic’s poetry accessible to Argentine readers, who will gain further insight into the multiple voices of contemporary American poetry.Fil: Raggio, Marcela. CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) - Universidad Nacional de Cuy
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