Mark Strand

Eavan Boland

Provides a detailed explanation of the different forms of poetry--sonnet, ballad, villanelle, sestina, etc.--and explains their origin, traces their history, and provides examples for each form. Reprint.

A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms

The Making of a Poem

In this compilation of older and newer poems, Strand demonstrates his mastery of cadence and narrative style.

Selected Poems

Presents poems that deal with such subjects as the self, time, and regret.

Poems

Blizzard of One

Now in rich color, thirty of American painter Edward Hopper's masterpieces with critiques from acclaimed poet Mark Strand. Strand deftly illuminates the work of the frequently misunderstood American painter, whose enigmatic paintings—of gas stations, storefronts, cafeterias, and hotel rooms—number among the most powerful of our time. In brief but wonderfully compelling comments accompanying each painting, the elegant expressiveness of Strand's language is put to the service of Hopper's visual world. The result is a singularly illuminating presentation of the work of one of America's best-known artists. Strand shows us how the formal elements of the paintings—geometrical shapes pointing beyond the canvas, light from unseen sources—locate the viewer, as he says, “in a virtual space where the influence and availability of feeling predominate.” An unforgettable combination of prose and painting in their highest forms, this book is a must for poetry and art lovers alike. From the Hardcover edition.

Hopper

The Continuous Life,

"A collection of all of the poet Mark Strand's previously published poems"--

Collected Poems

A latest collection by the U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author is comprised of whimsical, prose-style dramas that explore the receding vista of life while posing eloquent, riddle-like conundrums about the human condition.

Almost Invisible

A Poem

Dark Harbor

"These three titles were originally published separately: Reasons for moving and Darker, Atheneum; and The Sargentville notebook, Burning Desk"--T.p. verso.

Reasons for Moving ; Darker ; and The Sargentville Notebook

David Lehman

The Best American Poetry 1991

From Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964) through the wonderful middle work that includes The Continuous Life (1990) and crowned by the Pulitzer Prize–winning Blizzard of One (1998) and his most recent new collection, Man and Camel (2006), this book gives us an essential selection of Mark Strand’s poetry from across the entire span of his remarkable career to date.

New Selected Poems of Mark Strand

Reasons for Moving

The Owl's Insomnia

The Pulitzer Prizewinning poet discusses art and the nature of poetry, the link between photography and words, the eternal nature of the lyric, four American perspectives on Mount Parnassus, and much more in this insightful collection of essays.

Poetic Invention

The Weather of Words

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet discusses art and the nature of poetry, the link between photography and words, the eternal nature of the lyric, four American perspectives on Mount Parnassus, and much more in this insightful collection of essays. Reprint.

Mark Strand is the author of nine books of poems, including Blizzard of One, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize. He was the Poet Laureate of the United States in 1990, and currently teaches at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He lives in Chicago.

With, The Monument and The Late Hour : Poems

The Story of Our Lives

Presents a compilation of poetry spanning the poet's career, with selections from "Sleeping with One Eye Open," "The Continuous Life," the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Blizzard of One," and his most recent collection, "Man and Camel."

New Selected Poems

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.

Mark Strand

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