
Collected Poems of Mark Strand
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Gathered here is a half century's magnificent work by the former poet laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner whose haunting and exemplary style has influenced an entire generation of American poets.
Beginning with the limited-edition volume Sleeping with One Eye Open, published in 1964, Mark Strand was hailed as a poet of piercing originality and elegance, and in the ensuing decades he has not swerved from his vision of how a poem should be shaped and what it should deliver. As he entered the middle period of his career, with volumes such as The Continuous Life (1990), Strand was already well-known for his ability to capture the subtle music of consciousness, and for creating painterly physical landscapes that could answer to the inner self: "And here the dark infinitive to feel, / Which would endure and have the earth be still / And the star-strewn night pour down the mountains / Into the hissing fields and silent towns." In his later work, from Blizzard of One (1998) which won the Pulitzer Prize, through the sly, provocative riddles of his recent Almost Invisible (2012), Strand has delighted in reminding us that there is no poet quite like him for a dose of dark wit that turns out to be deep wisdom and self-deprecation. He has given voice to our collective imagination with a grandeur and comic honesty worthy of his great Knopf forebear Wallace Stevens. With this volume, we celebrate his canonical work.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964)
- I
- When the Vacation Is Over for Good
- Sleeping with One Eye Open
- Something Is in the Air
- Standing Still
- The Map
- Old People on the Nursing Home Porch
- No Man Is Continent Who Visits Islands
- Sailing to Italy
- Dreams
- Winter in North Liberty
- II
- You and It
- Taking a Walk with You
- A Poem on Dancing
- Walking Around
- The Nudist Colony
- In the Mountains
- In Memoriam
- III
- In the Privacy of the Home
- Success Story
- Make Believe Ballroom Time
- A Kind of Weakness
- Poem
- Reasons for Moving (1968)
- Eating Poetry
- The Accident
- The Mailman
- The Man in the Tree
- The Ghost Ship
- The Kite
- The Marriage
- The Whole Story
- The Babies
- The Last Bus
- What to Think Of
- The Dirty Hand
- The Tunnel
- Moontan
- The Dream
- The Man in Black
- Violent Storm
- The Suicide
- Keeping Things Whole
- The Door
- The Dead
- The Man in the Mirror
- Darker (1970)
- I Giving Myself Up
- The New Poetry Handbook
- Breath
- Letter
- Giving Myself Up
- Tomorrow
- The Room
- Nostalgia
- The Remains
- The Dance
- The Good Life
- The Dress
- The Guardian
- The Hill
- Coming to This
- II Black Maps
- The Sleep
- Black Maps
- Seven Poems
- From a Litany
- The Recovery
- The Prediction
- The One Song
- The Stone
- From a Litany
- III My Life by Somebody Else
- My Life
- My Death
- My Life by Somebody Else
- Courtship
- Elegy 1969
- "The Dreadful Has Already Happened"
- Not Dying
- The Way It Is
- The Story of Our Lives (1973)
- I Elegy for my Father
- II The Room
- The Room
- She
- In Celebratio
- To Begin
- III The Story of Our Lives
- The Story of Our Lives
- Inside the Story
- The Untelling
- The Late Hour (1978)
- I Another Place
- The Coming of Light
- Another Place
- Lines for Winter
- My Son
- White
- For Jessica, My Daughter
- II From the Long Sad Party
- From the Long Sad Party
- The Late Hour
- Seven Days
- About a Man
- The Story
- For Her
- So You Say
- Poems of Air
- An Old Man Awake in His Own Death
- No Particular Day
- Exiles
- III Poor North
- Poor North
- Where Are the Waters of Childhood?
- Pot Roast
- The House in French Village
- The Garden
- Snowfall
- IV Night Pieces
- I
- II
- The Monument (1978)
- from Selected Poems (1980)
- Shooting Whales
- Nights in Hackett's Cove
- A Morning
- My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer
- Leopardi
- The Continuous Life (1990)
- The Idea
- Velocity Meadows
- A.M.
- Cento Virgilianus
- Orpheus Alone
- Fear of the Night
- Two Letters
- 1 Grete Samsa's Letter to H.
- 2 Gregor Samsa's Letter to H.
- Chekhov: A Sestina
- To Himself
- Fiction
- Luminism
- Life in the Valley
- The Continuous Life
- From a Lost Diary
- Travel
- Narrative Poetry
- Always
- Grotesques
- 1 The Hunchback
- 2 The King
- 3 The Couple
- Se La Vita E Sventura . . .?
- One Winter Night
- Danse d'Hiver
- The Empire of Chance
- Translation
- The History of Poetry
- The Continental College of Beauty
- The Midnight Club
- The Famous Scene
- Itself Now
- Reading in Place
- The End
- Dark Harbor (1993)
- Blizzard of One (1998)
- I
- Untitled
- The Beach Hotel
- Old Man Leaves Party
- I Will Love the Twenty-First Century
- The Next Time
- The Night, the Porch
- Precious Little
- The Great Poet Returns
- II
- Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life
- Morning, Noon, and Night
- A Piece of the Storm
- A Suite of Appearances
- Here
- Two De Chiricos
- Some Last Words
- III
- Five Dogs
- IV
- In Memory of Joseph Brodsky
- What It Was
- The Delirium Waltz
- The View
- Man and Camel (2006)
- One
- The King
- I Had Been a Polar Explorer
- Two Horses
- 2002
- Man and Camel
- Error
- Fire
- Cake
- The Rose
- 2032
- Storm
- Conversation
- Afterwords
- Elevator
- Two
- Black Sea
- Mother and Son
- Mirror
- Moon
- People Walking Through the Night
- Marsyas
- The Webern Variations
- My Name
- Three
- Poem After the Seven Last Words
- Almost Invisible (2012)
- 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
- Notes and Acknowledgments
- Index of Titles
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
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