Selected poems

Strand, Mark

ISBN 10: 068911088X / ISBN 13: 9780689110887

Published by Atheneum, 1980

About this Item

Book is in near fine condition, with clean pages, solid, intact binding, and clean, intact cloth bookboards. Dust Jacket is good, with some yellowing due to age, and two small tears, one at top and one at bottom. Note on Edition: This book has original poems not appearing in any book, so is first edition, but also includes poems from his previous books. ABOUT THE BOOK: Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004. Strand was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University from 2005 until his death in 2014.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected poems
• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 068911088X
• ISBN 13: 9780689110887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

In this compilation of older and newer poems, Strand demonstrates his mastery of cadence and narrative style.

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."