That's what poets do, yes? He's dead. it's the fault of my prose, because Mark Strand's poetry is anything but cerebral in impact. Many reviewers have commented on the ‘painterly’ nature of Strand’s poetry. A must-have for any serious reader of poetry.Raw, genuine, and poignant, this modern poetry collection is about seeking romantic love...and learning to love yourself.Ice cream, ice cream, who wants ice cream?

The poet was probably very sick, close to death as this volume was being prepared. He was a shy dreamy child, and claims not to have been very bright at school. Please enter the message.Would you also like to submit a review for this item? Mark StrandMark Strand was born in 1934 on Prince Edward Island, Canada and grew up in the United States.

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He was a professor of English at Columbia University and also taught at numerous other colleges and universities.“We are reading the story of our lives as though we were in it, as though we had written it.”

The book was released in the weeks surrounding Mark Strand's death and so there is an air of tragedy and nobility infused (even more than usually) in his poems here. When I was a child what I saw of the world beyond my immediate neighborhood I saw from the backseat of my parents’ car.” Strand also felt a deep empathy with the spirit of the painter’s work, saying in interview: “I’ve always felt close to Hopper’s paintings, close to their strangeness.”Strand’s poetry, characterized by its simple language and surreal imagery, is situated in the shadowy line that forms the border between what we accept as reality, and what is just beyond our grasp.

He was a professor of English at Columbia University and also taught at numerous other colleges and universities.Mark Strand was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, essayist, and translator.

These are the most amazing poems ever. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. After receiving his BFA degree in 1959, Strand spent a year studying at the University of Florence on a Fulbright fellowship.

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I need to own it.While his narrative poems are not my favorite, re-reading the poetry in this collected volume made me incredibly happy, soothed, and full. Strand was chosen for the collaboration by the Bretano String Quartet’s first violinist, Mark Steinberg, after reading This recording was made by the Poetry Foundation on 3rd March 2008 in New York City. Again and again he will amaze you with a view of things both In this beautiful and philosophical collection, he tells us that nothing we strive for really matters, that everything just comes and goes, like wind, like breath.

A Mark Strand poem opens the door of wonder and admits you to a new world for as long as you wish to stay.

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He received many honors and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize (for

Collected poems. I got beat up by an obvious professor of Scandinavian Literature who didn't like my review of an award-winning Swede or Norwegian poet, translated by Robert Bly.

Mark Strand, born in 1934, was the author of many books of poems, a book of stories, and three volumes of translations, and was the editor of several anthologies. Charity No.

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