From Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems. Sometimes appearing as pure prose, sometimes as impure poetry, but always with Strand's clarity and simplicity of style, they are like riddles, their answers vanishing just as they appear within rea[...]
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a brilliant and witty collection of writings on the art and nature of poetry a master class both entertaining and provocative.
The pieces have a broad range and many levels. In one, we sit with the teenage Mark Strand while he reads for the first time [...]
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-editi[...]
Reasons for Moving was Mark Strand's first book, and on its publication in 1968 Donald Justice called him "maybe the very best of the new poets." Darker followed, and Robert Penn Warren said, "the moment is always exciting when a true poet finds the secret self that is the wellspring of his inspirat[...]
Mark Strand (f. 1934) är en av den samtida amerikanska poesins verkligt stora, bland annat belönad med Pulitzerpriset 1999. Hittills har Strand bara fått en bok översatt till svenska, Berättelsen om våra liv. Det arbetet gjordes av Stewe Claeson på 1970-talet, och det är även han som nu öv[...]
This anthology illuminates the history, practice, and wonder of our most elusive art, poetry. Intended for all those who love poetry, including teachers, readers, writers, and students, the book should be valued by those who feel that an understanding of form-sonnet, ballad, villanelle, and sestina [...]
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