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Mark Strand


Born
in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada
April 11, 1934

Died
November 29, 2014

Genre
Poetry


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. He was a professor of English at Columbia University and also taught at numerous other colleges and universities.

Strand also wrote children's books and art criticism, helped edit several poetry anthologies and translated Spanish poet Rafael Alberti.

He is survived by a son, a daughter and a sister. ...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 9,991 ratings · 1,012 reviews · 184 distinct works • Similar authors
The Making of a Poem: A Nor...
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4.01 avg rating — 2,422 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions
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Blizzard of One
4.03 avg rating — 1,147 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
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Selected Poems of Mark Strand
4.18 avg rating — 1,060 ratings — published 1980 — 13 editions
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Almost Invisible: Poems
3.82 avg rating — 615 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions
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Hopper
4.02 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 1994 — 23 editions
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Collected Poems
4.34 avg rating — 378 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions
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New Selected Poems
4.19 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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Reasons for Moving, Darker ...
4.35 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 1968 — 2 editions
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Man and Camel
3.84 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
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The Continuous Life
4.04 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 1990 — 15 editions
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“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems
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“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”
― Mark Strand, Selected Poems of Mark Strand
tags: happiness, poetry
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“In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.”
― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems
tags: poetry, self
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