Stated first edition. Book-plate INSCRIBED by the author to a previous owner on front free endpaper. Additionally, SIGNED by the author on the title page. About fine in like dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Continuous Life: Poems.

Publisher

Knopf,, NY:

Publication Date

1990

Language

English

ISBN 10

0394588177

ISBN 13

9780394588179

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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Synopsis

A collection of poems by 1991's Poet Laureate of the United States and a MacArthur Fellow includes a variety of poems and prose poems ranging from high oracular to low comic. Reprint.

About the Author

Mark Strand was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and was raised and educated in the United States and South America.He is the author of many books of poems, a book of stories, and three volumes of translations, and he was the editor of several anthologies. He received many honors and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize (forBlizzard of One), the Bollingen Prize, and the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1990, he was appointed poet laureate of the United States. He died in August 2013."

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