Almost Invisible: Poems (First Edition)

Mark Strand

ISBN 10: 0307957314 / ISBN 13: 9780307957313

Published by Knopf, New York, 2012

About this Item

First printing. A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean, tight copy with price ($23.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Although not marked as such in any way, this book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. REVIEW copy with review slip laid in.

Seller Inventory # McClatchy-323

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Almost Invisible: Poems (First Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307957314
• ISBN 13: 9780307957313
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

From Pulitzer Prize–winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems. Sometimes appearing as pure prose, sometimes as impure poetry, but always with Strand’s clarity and simplicity of style, they are like riddles, their answers vanishing just as they appear within reach. Fable, domestic satire, meditation, joke, and fantasy all come together in what is arguably the liveliest, most entertaining book that Strand has yet written.

About the Author

MARK STRAND is the author of twelve earlier books of poems. He is also the author of a book of stories, three volumes of translations, a number of anthologies (most recently 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century), and monographs on the artists William Bailey and Edward Hopper. He has received many honors and awards for his poems, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize (for Blizzard of One), the Bollingen Prize, and the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1990 he was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States. He teaches at Columbia University.