Mark Strand





Mark Strand

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born
April 11, 1934 in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada

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Mark Strand is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005, he has been a professor of English at Columbia University.


Average rating: 4.04 · 2,535 ratings · 211 reviews · 70 distinct works
The Making of a Poem
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 538 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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Selected Poems
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions
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Blizzard of One
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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Reasons for Moving / Darker...
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1968 — 3 editions
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New Selected Poems
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Man and Camel
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Dark Harbor
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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The Continuous Life
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
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The Story of Our Lives, wit...
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions
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Hopper
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions
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“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”
Mark Strand, Reasons For Moving; Poems

“Even this late it happens:
the coming of love, the coming of light.”
Mark Strand, Selected Poems



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