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Book Collected Poems of Mark Strand

Download or read book Collected Poems of Mark Strand written by Mark Strand and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Collected Poems

Download or read book Collected Poems written by Mark Strand and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2014 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of all of the poet Mark Strand's previously published poems"--

Book Selected Poems of Mark Strand

Download or read book Selected Poems of Mark Strand written by Mark Strand and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1990-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compilation of older and newer poems, Strand demonstrates his mastery of cadence and narrative style.

Book Blizzard of One

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Strand
  • Publisher : Waywiser Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781904130154
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Blizzard of One written by Mark Strand and published by Waywiser Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Almost Invisible

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  • Author : Mark Strand
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 2012-08-29
  • ISBN : 0307957640
  • Pages : 65 pages

Download or read book Almost Invisible written by Mark Strand and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 reach. Fable, domestic satire, meditation, joke, and fantasy all come together in what is arguably the liveliest, most entertaining book that Strand has yet written.

Book Collected Poems

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  • Author : C. K. Williams
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2014-09-09
  • ISBN : 1466880570
  • Pages : 707 pages

Download or read book Collected Poems written by C. K. Williams and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected Poems brings together nearly four decades of C. K.Williams's work: more than four hundred poems that, though remarkable in their variety, have in common Williams's distinctive outlook—restless, passionate, dogged, and uncompromising in the drive to find words for the truth about life as we know it today. Williams's rangy, elastic lines are measures of thought, and in these pages we watch them unfold from his confrontational early poems through the open, expansive Tar and With Ignorance. His voice is both cerebral and muscular, capable of both the eightline poems of Flesh and Blood and the inward soundings of A Dream of Mind—and of both together in the award-winning recent books Repair and The Singing. These poems feel spontaneous, individual, and directly representative of the experience of which they sing; open to life, they chafe against summary and conclusion. Few poets leave behind them a body of work that is global in its ambition and achievement. C. K. Williams is one of them.

Book Selected Poems

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  • Author : Mark Strand
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781857541908
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Selected Poems written by Mark Strand and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of Sleeping With One Eye Open. Mark Strand's poetry explores the realities of dreams and in this work, his surrealism has made way for more defined intentions. In 1990, Strand was nominated Poet Laureate of the United States.

Book The Weather of Words

Download or read book The Weather of Words written by Mark Strand and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2001-11-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 a poem that truly amazes him: "You, Andrew Marvell" by Archibald MacLeish, in which night sweeps in an unstoppable but exhilarating circle around the earth toward the speaker standing at noon. The essay goes on to explicate the poem, but it also evokes, through its form and content, the poem's meaning -- time's circular passage -- with the young Strand first happening upon the poem, the older Strand seeing into it differently, but still amazed. Among the other subjects Strand explores: the relationship between photographs and poems, the eternal nature of the lyric, the contemporary use of old forms, four American views of Parnassus, and an alphabet of poetic influences. We visit as well Strandian parallel universes, whose absurdity illuminates the lack of a vital discussion of poetry in our culture at large: Borges drops in on a man taking a bath, perches on the edge of the tub, and discusses translation; a president explains in his farewell address why he reads Chekhov to his cabinet. Throughout The Weather of Words, Mark Strand explores the crucial job of poets and their readers, who together joyfully attempt the impossible -- to understand through language that which lies beyond words.

Book Dark Harbor

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  • Author : Mark Strand
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 1994-06-28
  • ISBN : 067975279X
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dark Harbor written by Mark Strand and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1994-06-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Strand gives us a poem in forty-five sections that—despite its wide range and shifting mood and tone—is all of a piece. Here Strand speaks candidly to the reader, conversing, offering urban wit and surrealist digressions that draw on our innermost sensations and the outermost reaches of our reality: Is what exists a souvenir of the time Of the great nought and deep night without stars The time before the universe began? When we look at each other and see nothing Is that not a confirmation that we are less Than meets the eye and embody some of The night of our origins? A timeless pursuit of timeless questions, Dark Harbor centers on uncertainty and the known, family and isolation, the possible and the real. The poems in this book are easily recognizable as the world of one of our most interesting and influential poets.

Book Selected Poems of Mark Strand

Download or read book Selected Poems of Mark Strand written by Mark Strand and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1990-09-26 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compilation of older and newer poems, Strand demonstrates his mastery of cadence and narrative style.

Book Hopper

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  • Author : Mark Strand
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 2011-11-29
  • ISBN : 0307957101
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book Hopper written by Mark Strand and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Continuous Life   Eighteen Poems

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  • Author : Mark Strand
  • Publisher : Iowa City [Iowa] : Windhover Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780394588179
  • Pages : 58 pages

Download or read book The Continuous Life Eighteen Poems written by Mark Strand and published by Iowa City [Iowa] : Windhover Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Man and Camel

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  • Author : Mark Strand
  • Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Man and Camel written by Mark Strand and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 2006 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Book New Selected Poems

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  • Author : Mark Strand
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book New Selected Poems written by Mark Strand and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than twenty-five years after the appearance of his firstSelected 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. FromSleeping with One Eye Open(1964) through the wonderful middle work that includesThe Continuous Life(1990), and crowned by the Pulitzer Prize–winningBlizzard of One(1998) and his most recent collection,Man and Camel(2006), this book makes a crucial selection of Strand’s always beautiful and by turns humorous and melancholy poems. Over the decades Strand’s identity as a poet has remained firm: he is existential, playful, mysterious, a poet of simple words and sentences that somehow add up to powerful universal experiences. With his incantatory language and radiant, commanding imagery, he creates mythic scenes and vistas that, however otherworldly, are ultimately of this earth: their underlying subject the pain and pleasure of being mortal. Here is an essential compilation from one of the most beloved and honored American poets at work today, without which no modern poetry collection is complete.

Book Looking for Poetry

Download or read book Looking for Poetry written by and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2002-02-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlos Drummond de Andrade, one of the most revered Brazilian poets of the twentieth century, was born in 1902 in a small mining town; he died in Rio de Janeiro in 1987. His poems are, for the most part, bittersweet evocations of a small-town childhood, or, more emblematically, remorseful accounts of a lost world or simply discreet and sometimes ironic views of the way things are. Songs from the Quechua are translated from Spanish version of the folk poetry of the Quechua Indians of South America, collected and transcribed in the nineteenth century by priests and, more recently, by anthropologists. They convey a degree of tenderness that is unusual in any poetry. Rafael Alberti was born in 1902 in Spain and was in exile in Argentina during the Spanish Civil War. He died in 1999. These fifty poems provide an ample introduction to one of the twentieth century's great poets. -- From publisher's description.

Book 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century

Download or read book 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century written by Mark Strand and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-06-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last century's 100 most enduring poems, selected and introduced by former Poet Laureate Mark Strand. Accounting for the great range of style and content with which poets such as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Federico García Lorca, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Butler Yeats, Pablo Neruda, and Jorge Luis Borges responded to the changes and challenges of the twentieth century, 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century is intended as both a unique compendium for the already well-versed and as an engaging introduction for those new to the expansive world of poetry. Alan Ginsberg's struggle—"What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman....In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!"—is echoed by other remarkable poets in this international collection of exciting and moving poems that are alike not in their length or for their status as seminal texts but because they are impossible to forget.

Book Darker

    Book Details:
  • Author : Trina M. Lee
  • Publisher : Trina M. Lee
  • Release : 2013-03-09
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Darker written by Trina M. Lee and published by Trina M. Lee. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexa's fighting a losing battle with the darkness growing inside her. But there's no time to feel sorry for herself. She must find a way to stop Lilah, the demon queen hell bent on making Alexa surrender her blood to break a centuries old curse. With her power bound, Lilah is ready to play dirty. Even if it means killing Alexa's wolves, one by one. It's not easy to stay a step ahead of the demon, especially with the FPA on her case. The government op is to blame for the disappearance of Kale Sinclair. When she looks into his whereabouts, the discovery of some shady secrets paints the FPA in a whole new light. Conflict between Arys and Alexa grows hot when Arys wants to ally with Shya, a demon with his own sinister agenda. But Alexa can only deal with one demon at a time. Nothing else matters when Lilah targets someone close to her. Alexa will do anything to make it right, even walking straight into the demon's clutches. This gritty urban fantasy series is a walk to the dark and wild side. It features ass kicking action, magic, and a reverse harem twist.