The Continuous Life,: Poems

Strand, Mark

ISBN 10: 0679738444 / ISBN 13: 9780679738442

Published by Knopf, 1992

About this Item

Inscribed and signed by Strand on front endpaper. Light wear & aging to covers. Binding is firm. Small spot of soiling on fore edge of text block. Interior is clean, free of markings. Seller Inventory # 084831

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Continuous Life,: Poems

Publisher: Knopf

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis:

Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with "the weather of leavetaking," but they are also unexpectedly funny. The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration. This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit.

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.