Almost Invisible
Poems
Published on 29. August 2012
64 pages
978-0-307-95764-1 (ISBN)
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From Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems. Sometimes appearing as pure prose, sometimes as impure poetry, but always with Strand's clarity and simplicity of style, they are like riddles, their answers vanishing just as they appear within reach. Fable, domestic satire, meditation, joke, and fantasy all come together in what is arguably the liveliest, most entertaining book that Strand has yet written.
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MARK STRAND is the author of twelve earlier books of poems. He is also the author of a book of stories, three volumes of translations, a number of anthologies (most recently 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century), and monographs on the artists William Bailey and Edward Hopper. He has received many honors and awards for his poems, 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 chosen Poet Laureate of the United States. He teaches at Columbia University.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Banker in the Brothel of Blind Women
- Bury Your Face in Your Hands
- Anywhere Could Be Somewhere
- Harmony in the Boudoir
- Clarities of the Nonexistent
- The Minister of Culture Gets His Wish
- The Old Age of Nostalgia
- Dream Testicles, Vanished Vaginas
- The Students of the Ineffable
- The Everyday Enchantment of Music
- The Buried Melancholy of the Poet
- Ever So Many Hundred Years Hence
- Exhaustion at Sunset
- Clear in the September Light
- You Can Always Get There from Here
- The Gallows in the Garden
- Love Silhouetted by Lamplight
- The Triumph of the Infinite
- The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter
- Poem of the Spanish Poet
- The Enigma of the Infinitesimal
- A Dream of Travel
- The Emergency Room at Dusk
- Once Upon a Cold November Morning
- Provisional Eternity
- The Street at the End of the World
- The Nietzschean Hourglass, or The Future's Misfortune
- An Event About Which No More Need Be Said
- A Short Panegyric
- Hermetic Melancholy
- A Letter from Tegucigalpa
- Mystery and Solitude in Topeka
- There Was Nothing to Be Done
- No Words Can Describe It
- In the Afterlife
- Futility in Key West
- On the Hidden Beauty of My Sickness
- With Only the Stars to Guide Us
- Trouble in Pocatello
- Like a Leaf Carried Off by the Wind
- The Social Worker and the Monkey
- Nobody Knows What Is Known
- Those Little Legs and Awful Hands
- Not to Miss the Great Thing
- Nocturne of the Poet Who Loved the Moon
- In the Grand Ballroom of the New Eternity
- When I Turned a Hundred
- Acknowledgments
- A Note About the Author
- Also by the Author
