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Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur fellow, and 2007 poet laureate of the United States, Simic (The Monster Loves His Labyrinth) is one of America's most celebrated poets, yet he remains, paradoxically, a kind of visitor or stranger to this country and language. Raised in war-torn Yugoslavia, he came to the United States as an adolescent with a vivid sense of the extent of human brutality and venality. The world that h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More