Reasons for Moving, Darker & The Sargentville Not: Poems - Softcover

Strand, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679736689 ISBN 13: 9780679736684

Publisher: Knopf, 1992

Synopsis

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 his inspiration." And Harold Bloom wrote, "these poems instantly touch a universal anguish as no confessional poems can, for Strand has the fortune of writing naturally and almost simply (though this must he supreme artifice) out of the involuntary near solipsism that always marks a central poetic imagination in America."

These key books in the career of a recent Poet Laureate of the United States are now reissued in one volume together with a private-press book of aphorisms dating from the same time. An essential book for a full understanding of one of our major poets.

Color woodcut, Night Scene, by Neil Welliver. Courtesy of the artist.

About this title

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 (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 appointed poet laureate of the United States. He died in August 2013.

Review:

The Dirty Hand
The Accident
The Babies
Black Maps
Breath
Coming To This
Courtship
The Dance
The Dead
The Door
'the Dreadful Has Already Happened'
The Dream
The Dress
Eating Poetry
Elegy 1969 (after Carlos Drummond De Andrade)
From A Litany
From A Litany
The Ghost Ship
Giving Myself Up
The Good Life
The Guardian
The Hill
Keeping Things Whole
The Kite (for Bill And Sandy Bailey)
The Last Bus
Letter
The Mailman
The Man In Black
The Man In The Mirror
The Man In The Tree
The Marriage
Moontan
My Death
My Life
My Life By Somebody Else
The New Poetry Handbook
Nostalgia
Not Dying
The One Song
The Prediction
The Recovery
The Remains
The Room
The Sargentville Notebook
Seven Poems
The Sleep
The Stone
The Suicide
Tomorrow
The Tunnel
Violent Storm
The Way It Is
What To Think Of
The Whole Story
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679736689
• ISBN 13: 9780679736684
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128