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author spotlight
Mark Strand is the author of eleven books of poems, as well as a collection of short stories and several volumes of translations, anthologies, and monographs. He has received many honors and awards for his poems, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize (for Blizzard of One), and the Bollingen Prize. In 1990 he was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
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New Selected Poems
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $22.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $22.00
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... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Blizzard of One
Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2000
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2000
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
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Reasons for Moving, Darker & The Sargentville Not
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: January 28, 1992
Price: $17.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: January 28, 1992
Price: $17.00
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... Read more >
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Selected Poems
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 26, 1990
Price: $19.95
In this compilation of older and newer poems, Strand demonstrates his mastery of cadence and narrative style. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 26, 1990
Price: $19.95
In this compilation of older and newer poems, Strand demonstrates his mastery of cadence and narrative style. Read more >
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The Continuous Life,
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: May 30, 1992
Price: $19.00
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Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: May 30, 1992
Price: $19.00
Read more >
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Man and Camel
Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $15.00
This eleventh collection by Mark Strand is a toast to life’s transience and abiding beauty. He begins with a group of light but haunting fables, populated by figures like the King, a tiny creature in ermine who has lost his desire to rule, and by the poet’s own alter ego, who... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $15.00
This eleventh collection by Mark Strand is a toast to life’s transience and abiding beauty. He begins with a group of light but haunting fables, populated by figures like the King, a tiny creature in ermine who has lost his desire to rule, and by the poet’s own alter ego, who... Read more >
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The Story of Our Lives
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2002
Price: $18.00
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. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2002
Price: $18.00
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. Read more >
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Looking for Poetry
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2002
Price: $19.00
A uniquely appealing collection that reflects the variety and richness of South American poetry.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, a native-born Brazilian, is universally recognized as the finest and most accessible modern Portugese-language poet and, along with Pablo Neruda, a poet of the common man, writing of home, family, friends, and love.
Rafael Alberti--an... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2002
Price: $19.00
A uniquely appealing collection that reflects the variety and richness of South American poetry.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, a native-born Brazilian, is universally recognized as the finest and most accessible modern Portugese-language poet and, along with Pablo Neruda, a poet of the common man, writing of home, family, friends, and love.
Rafael Alberti--an... Read more >
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eBook.
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New Selected Poems
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $26.95
More than twenty-five years after the appearance of his first Selected Poems, we at last have a magnificent new gathering of Mark Strand’s work, one that spans and celebrates his entire remarkable career to date. From Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964) through the wonderful middle work that includes The Continuous... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $26.95
More than twenty-five years after the appearance of his first Selected Poems, we at last have a magnificent new gathering of Mark Strand’s work, one that spans and celebrates his entire remarkable career to date. From Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964) through the wonderful middle work that includes The Continuous... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Weather of Words
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
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Also available as a
trade paperback.
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