(ASSOCIATION COPY) Reasons for Moving

First Edition. An important Association Copy of Mark Strand's Second Book of Poems. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on the half-title page, "for Willis | with affection and | admiration, with | warm memories of the | beginning of this | enterprise. | - Mark.". Fine. Octavo. In a Very Good Dust Jacket. Small chips at folds and spine ends. Spine sunned and rubbed, yet still legible. Strand served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 1990 to 1991 and later won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He and Barnstone worked together on the translations of Borges's The Sonnets: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text (2010). From the collection of noted poet and translator Willis Barnstone. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.