The World Doesn't End

Charles Simic (1938-2023) was a Serbian-American poet renowned for his surreal, imagistic poetry drawing from his World War II childhood in Belgrade and immigrant experiences in the United States, where he became a citizen in 1971.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simic, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Simic. His notable works include The World Doesn't End (Pulitzer Prize 1990), Selected Poems 1963-2003, and Jackstraws; he served as U.S. Poet Laureate (2007-2008), received the Frost Medal (2011), and a MacArthur Fellowship.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simic, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charles-simic, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Simic