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Collected Poems of Mark Strand

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Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award

Gathered here is a half century's magnificent work by the former poet laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner whose haunting and exemplary style has influenced an entire generation of American poets.

Beginning with the limited-edition volume Sleeping with One Eye Open, published in 1964, Mark Strand was hailed as a poet of piercing originality and elegance, and in the ensuing decades he has not swerved from his vision of how a poem should be shaped and what it should deliver. As he entered the middle period of his career, with volumes such as The Continuous Life (1990), Strand was already well-known for his ability to capture the subtle music of consciousness, and for creating painterly physical landscapes that could answer to the inner self: "And here the dark infinitive to feel, / Which would endure and have the earth be still / And the star-strewn night pour down the mountains / Into the hissing fields and silent towns." In his later work, from Blizzard of One (1998) which won the Pulitzer Prize, through the sly, provocative riddles of his recent Almost Invisible (2012), Strand has delighted in reminding us that there is no poet quite like him for a dose of dark wit that turns out to be deep wisdom and self-deprecation. He has given voice to our collective imagination with a grandeur and comic honesty worthy of his great Knopf forebear Wallace Stevens. With this volume, we celebrate his canonical work.

Book Details

Publisher:
Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN:
9780804170857
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
544
Authors:
Mark Strand
Published Date:
2016-03-01
Language:
English

About Mark Strand

Mark Strand (1934–2014) was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Blizzard of One (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1999. His earlier collections include Reasons for Moving (Atheneum, 1968) and Darker (Atheneum, 1970). He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1990 to 1991. His honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. He taught at the University of Chicago and other institutions.

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