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New Selected Poems

by Mark Strand

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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 Strands poetry from across the entire span of his remarkable career to date.

About the Author

Mark Strand has received numerous honors and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1990 he was named Poet Laureate of the United States. A longtime resident of Chicago, he now lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

from Sleeping with One Eye Open

Sleeping with One Eye Open

When the Vacation Is Over for Good

Violent Storm

Old People on the Nursing Home Porch

Keeping Things Whole

The Whole Story

The Tunnel

from Reasons for Moving

The Mailman

The Accident

The Man in the Tree

The Man in the Mirror

The Ghost Ship

Moontan

What to Think Of

The Marriage

Eating Poetry

The Dirty Hand

from Darker

The New Poetry Handbook

The Remains

Giving Myself Up

The Room

Letter

Nostalgia

Tomorrow

The Dress

The Good Life

Black Maps

Coming to This

The Sleep

Breath

The Prediction

From a Litany

My Life

My Life by Somebody Else

Courtship

Not Dying

The Way It Is

from The Story of Our Lives

Elegy for My Father

In Celebration

The Story of Our Lives

The Untelling

The Monument

from The Late Hour

The Coming of Light

Another Place

Lines for Winter

My Son

For Jessica, My Daughter

From The Long Sad Party

The Late Hour

The Story

For Her

So You Say

Poor North

Pot Roast

The House in French Village

The Garden

Snowfall

from Selected Poems

Shooting Whales

Nights in Hacketts Cove

A Morning

My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer

from The Continuous Life

The Idea

Velocity Meadows

A.M.

Orpheus Alone

Fiction

Luminism

Life in the Valley

The Continuous Life

Always

Se la vita è sventura . . . ?

One Winter Night

The History of Poetry

The Continental College of Beauty

The Midnight Club

The Famous Scene

Itself Now

Reading in Place

The End

from Dark Harbor

I, VII, VIII, XIV, XVI, XX, XXII, XXIII,

XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXXI, XXXV,

XXXVI, XXXIX, XL, XLIII, XLIV, XLV\

from Blizzard of One

The Beach Hotel

Old Man Leaves Party

IWill Love the Twenty-first Century

The Next Time

The Night, the Porch

Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life

Morning, Noon, and Night

A Piece of the Storm

A Suite of Appearances

Here

Two de Chiricos

Some Last Words

In Memory of Joseph Brodsky

What It Was

The Delirium Waltz

The View

from Man and Camel

The King

I Had Been a Polar Explorer

Man and Camel

Fire

The Rose

Storm

Afterwords

Elevator

Black Sea

Mother and Son

Mirror

Moon

Marsyas

My Name

Poem After the Seven Last Words

Product Details

ISBN:
9780375711275
Author:
Strand, Mark
Publisher:
Knopf Publishing Group
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Single Author / General
Subject:
Poetry-A to Z
Subject:
Single Author / American
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
20090131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
8.42x6.30x.82 in. .85 lbs.

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