Blizzard of One: Poems by Strand, Mark

Blizzard of One: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375701375)

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Blizzard of One: Poems by Strand, Mark

Blizzard of One: Pulitzer Prize Winner

$19.00
Blizzard of One: Poems by Strand, Mark

Blizzard of One: Pulitzer Prize Winner

$19.00
Format: Paperback
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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. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Blizzard of One is an extraordinary book--the summation of the work of a lifetime by one of our very few true masters of the art of poetry.

Author: Mark Strand
ISBN-10: 0375701370
ISBN-13: 9780375701375
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/08/2000
Pages: 72
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.86w x 0.25d
Award: Boston Book Review - Winner
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/02/2000 pg. 32
By Mark Strand
By Mark Strand
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Mark Strand is a former Poet Laureate of the United States. He has written eight earlier books of poems, which have brought him many honors and grants, including a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author of a book of stories, Mr. and Mrs. Baby, several volumes and translations (of works by Rafeal Alberti and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, among others), the editor of a number of anthologies, and author of several monographs on contemporary artists (William Bailey and Edward Hopper). He was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and was raised and educated in the United States and South America. He teaches currently in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

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