Mark Strand
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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Hopper
eBook | 80 pages | Knopf | Art - Criticism
978-0-307-53092-9 (0-307-53092-2)
March 25, 2009 | $23.00
Written by Mark Strand
eBook | 80 pages | Knopf | Art - Criticism
978-0-307-53092-9 (0-307-53092-2)
March 25, 2009 | $23.00
Also available as a
trade paperback.
New Selected Poems
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author
978-0-375-71127-5 (0-375-71127-9)
January 13, 2009 | $23.00
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...
Written by Mark Strand
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author
978-0-375-71127-5 (0-375-71127-9)
January 13, 2009 | $23.00
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...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Man and Camel
Trade Paperback | 72 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-375-71126-8 (0-375-71126-0)
March 25, 2008 | $17.00
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...
Written by Mark Strand
Trade Paperback | 72 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-375-71126-8 (0-375-71126-0)
March 25, 2008 | $17.00
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...
New Selected Poems
Hardcover | 288 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author
978-0-307-26297-4 (0-307-26297-9)
September 25, 2007 | $34.95
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...
Written by Mark Strand
Hardcover | 288 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author
978-0-307-26297-4 (0-307-26297-9)
September 25, 2007 | $34.95
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...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Looking for Poetry
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-375-70988-3 (0-375-70988-6)
February 26, 2002 | $28.50
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...
Translated by Mark Strand
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-375-70988-3 (0-375-70988-6)
February 26, 2002 | $28.50
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...
The Story of Our Lives
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-375-70975-3 (0-375-70975-4)
February 26, 2002 | $27.00
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.
Written by Mark Strand
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-375-70975-3 (0-375-70975-4)
February 26, 2002 | $27.00
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.
Hopper
Trade Paperback | 80 pages | Knopf | Art - Criticism
978-0-375-70971-5 (0-375-70971-1)
November 13, 2001 | $23.00
Written by Mark Strand
Trade Paperback | 80 pages | Knopf | Art - Criticism
978-0-375-70971-5 (0-375-70971-1)
November 13, 2001 | $23.00
Also available as an
eBook.
The Weather of Words
Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Knopf | Poetry; Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays
978-0-375-70970-8 (0-375-70970-3)
November 13, 2001 | $23.00
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...
Written by Mark Strand
Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Knopf | Poetry; Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays
978-0-375-70970-8 (0-375-70970-3)
November 13, 2001 | $23.00
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...
Blizzard of One
Trade Paperback | 72 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-375-70137-5 (0-375-70137-0)
February 8, 2000 | $21.00
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...
Written by Mark Strand
Trade Paperback | 72 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-375-70137-5 (0-375-70137-0)
February 8, 2000 | $21.00
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...
Dark Harbor
Trade Paperback | 64 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-679-75279-0 (0-679-75279-X)
June 28, 1994 | $25.00
Written by Mark Strand
Trade Paperback | 64 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-679-75279-0 (0-679-75279-X)
June 28, 1994 | $25.00
The Continuous Life,
Trade Paperback | 80 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-679-73844-2 (0-679-73844-4)
May 30, 1992 | $23.00
Written by Mark Strand
Trade Paperback | 80 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-679-73844-2 (0-679-73844-4)
May 30, 1992 | $23.00
Reasons for Moving, Darker & The Sargentville Not
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-679-73668-4 (0-679-73668-9)
January 28, 1992 | $23.00
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...
Written by Mark Strand
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-679-73668-4 (0-679-73668-9)
January 28, 1992 | $23.00
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...
Selected Poems
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-679-73301-0 (0-679-73301-9)
September 26, 1990 | $27.95
In this compilation of older and newer poems, Strand demonstrates his mastery of cadence and narrative style.
Written by Mark Strand
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-679-73301-0 (0-679-73301-9)
September 26, 1990 | $27.95
In this compilation of older and newer poems, Strand demonstrates his mastery of cadence and narrative style.
