Mark Strand





Mark Strand

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

gender
male

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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 · 3,463 ratings · 267 reviews · 75 distinct works · Similar authors
The Making of a Poem: A Nor...
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 761 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
Selected Poems
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions
Blizzard of One
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 504 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
Reasons for Moving / Darker...
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 1968 — 3 editions
New Selected Poems
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
Man and Camel
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions
The Continuous Life
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
Dark Harbor
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
Almost Invisible: Poems
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
Hopper
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1994 — 10 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

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



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