Reasons for Moving, Darker & the Sargentville Not: Poems

Description

Reasons for Moving was Mark Strand's first book, and on its publication in 1968 Donald Justice called him "maybe the very best of the new poets." Darker followed, and Robert Penn Warren said, "the moment is always exciting when a true poet finds the secret self that is the wellspring of his inspiration." And Harold Bloom wrote, "these poems instantly touch a universal anguish as no confessional poems can, for Strand has the fortune of writing naturally and almost simply (though this must he supreme artifice) out of the involuntary near solipsism that always marks a central poetic imagination in America."

These key books in the career of a recent Poet Laureate of the United States are now reissued in one volume together with a private-press book of aphorisms dating from the same time. An essential book for a full understanding of one of our major poets.

Color woodcut, Night Scene, by Neil Welliver. Courtesy of the artist.

Product Details

Price

$18.00 $16.74

Publisher

Knopf Publishing Group

Publish Date

January 28, 1992

Pages

128

Dimensions

5.49 X 8.23 X 0.48 inches | 0.47 pounds

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9780679736684

BISAC Categories:

American - General

Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss

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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.

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