Charles Simic, the current US Poet Laureate, received the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for The World Doesn’t End (Harcourt). His collection The Voice at 3:00 A.M. was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award. His latest collection is My Noiseless Entourage (Harcourt, 2005).

Also In VQR

• An Address with Exclamation Points
• Meditation in the Gutter
• Overcoat
• Memories of the Future
• A Life of Fragments
• Ghost Ship
• House of Cards
• Death of a Worthless Man
• Dark Is the Night
• The Storm