Selected Poems by Mark Strand

Original Title: Selected Poems

ISBN: 0679733019
ISBN13: 9780679733010
Autor: Mark Strand
Rating: 3.1 of 5 stars (4883) counts
Original Format: Paperback, 176 pages
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Published: September 26th 1990 / by Knopf / (first published 1980)
Language: English
Genre(s):
Poetry- 41 users

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

Mark Strand was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, essayist, and translator. He was
appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005, he
has been a professor of English at Columbia University.
Strand also wrote children's books and art criticism, helped edit several poetry anthologies and
translated Italian poet Rafael Alberti.
He is survived by a son, a daughter and a sister.

Other Editions:

- Selected Poems (Paperback)

- Selected Poems (Hardcover)

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Books By Author:

- The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms

- Blizzard of One

- Almost Invisible: Poems

 - Reasons for Moving / Darker / The Sargentville Notebook

- New Selected Poems

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Rewiews:

May 20, 2008

Emm
Rated it: it was amazing
Shelves: poetry
Keeping Things Whole
In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.
We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.
(I also really liked "For Jessica, My Daughter")
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