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Simic often wrote about his World War II-era childhood in Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia. He moved to the U.S. in his teens. For the rest of his life he would look back on not merely his wartime childhood but on the circus of everyday life in Belgrade — but he embraced American life. He wrote verse like a man who had escaped a cruel fate and was determined not to waste a moment.

Charles Simic, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who awed critics and readers with his singular art of lyricism and economy, tragic insight and disruptive humor, has died at age 84. The death of Simic, the country’s poet laureate from 2007-2008, was confirmed Monday by executive editor Dan Halpern at Alfred A. Knopf. He did not immediately…

NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Simic, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who awed critics and readers with his singular art of lyricism and economy, tragic insight and disruptive humor, has died at age 84.The death of Simic, the country’s poet laureate from...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who awed readers with his singular blend of lyricism and economy, tragic insight and disruptive humor, has died.

Charles Simic, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who awed critics and readers with his singular art of lyricism and economy, tragic insight and disruptive humor, has died at age 84.