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Tracing \"the exuberant history of forms,\" they devote one chapter to each form, offering explanation, close reading, and a rich selection of examplars that amply demonstrate the power and possibility of that form.","brand":"Mark Strand, Evan Boland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793337221162,"sku":"9780393321784","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/making-of-a-poem-5246636.jpg?v=1762150426"},{"product_id":"blizzard-of-one-pulitzer-prize-winner","title":"Blizzard of One: Pulitzer Prize Winner","description":"Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with \"the weather of leavetaking,\" but they are also unexpectedly funny. The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration. This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, \u003cb\u003eBlizzard of One\u003c\/b\u003e is an extraordinary book--the summation of the work of a lifetime by one of our very few true masters of the art of poetry.","brand":"Mark Strand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793337679914,"sku":"9780375701375","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/blizzard-of-one-pulitzer-prize-winner-8430268.jpg?v=1762150358"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-of-mark-strand","title":"Selected Poems of Mark Strand","description":"In this compilation of older and newer poems, Strand demonstrates his mastery of cadence and narrative style.","brand":"Mark Strand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793337876522,"sku":"9780679733010","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/selected-poems-of-mark-strand-4640057.jpg?v=1762150358"},{"product_id":"continuous-life-poems","title":"Continuous Life,: Poems","description":"Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. 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