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Title: Selected Poems by MARK STRAND ISBN: 0-679-73301-9 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 September, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing...
Comment: This collection proves Mark Strand to be one of the most amazing, talented contemporary poets. Easy for a poetry beginner to appreciate and understand, yet complex enough for the biggest poetry buff to love, this book made me think over and over again about the thoughts Strand so elegantly examines. I had the luck to be able to see Strand read, and his wit and grace impressed me almost as much as his work does. If you are interested in reading contemporary poetry, or already love the likes of Simic, Tate, Wright, Ashbery, etc, pick up this book and let Stand's magic take you away.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good collection and introduction to Strand
Comment: I agree with the last 2 reviews: being well-known and well spoken of does not preclude a poet from writing good poetry, and this collection is a very good sampling of Strand's work. I'm particularly fond of his early work, and this collection continues to keep in-print poetry that otherwise might not be read since his earlier collections are out-of-print.
Yes, a poet brings to his work a certain personality, and we can't fully separate the two. But in the end, poets are vessels and it is the poetry we are interested in--if not, we'd be psychologists.
Rating: 5
Summary: Poems that leave you changed from when you began them
Comment: Mark Strand is an excellent contemporary poet. Some poems leave the reader smiling, such as in "The New Poetry Handbook." An excerpt reads, "If a man publicly denounces poetry, / his shoes will fill with urine." Even within this one poem, the reader changes from a laugh to a stunned silence, from the last line in the poem, "If a man finishes a poem, / he shall bathe in the blank wake of his passion / and be kissed by white paper."
Strand uses language to purely, succintly, metaphorically, lyrically, and beautifully describe every day life: marriage, writing, love, home, and death.
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Title: Blizzard of One : Poems by Mark Strand ISBN: 0375701370 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 08 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Story of Our Lives, with the Monument and the Late Hour by Mark Strand ISBN: 0375709754 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Weather of Words : Poetic Inventions by Mark Strand ISBN: 0375709703 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 13 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Continuous Life, : Poems by Mark Strand ISBN: 0679738444 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 30 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Reasons for Moving, Darker & The Sargentville Not : Poems by MARK STRAND ISBN: 0679736689 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 28 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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