New Selected Poems of Mark Strand [Paperback]

FromSleeping with One Eye Open(1964) through the wonderful middle work that includesThe Continuous Life(1990) and crowned by the Pulitzer Prize–winningBlizzard of One(1998) and his most recent new collection,Man and Camel(2006), this book gives us an essential selection of Mark Strand’s poetry from across the entire span of his remarkable career to date.Acknowledgments

fromSleeping with One Eye Open
Sleeping with One Eye Open
When the Vacation Is Over for Good
Violent Storm
Old People on the Nursing Home Porch
Keeping Things Whole
The Whole Story
The Tunnel

fromReasons for Moving
The Mailman
The Accident
The Man in the Tree
The Man in the Mirror
The Ghost Ship
Moontan
What to Think Of
The Marriage
Eating Poetry
The Dirty Hand

fromDarker
The New Poetry Handbook
The Remains
Giving Myself Up
The Room
Letter
Nostalgia
Tomorrow
The Dress
The Good Life
Black Maps
Coming to This
The Sleep
Breath
The Prediction
From a Litany
My Life
My Life by Somebody Else
Courtship
Not Dying
The Way It Is

fromThe Story of Our Lives
Elegy for My Father
In Celebration
The Story of Our Lives
The Untelling

The Monument

fromThe Late Hour
The Coming of Light
Another Place
Lines for Winter
My Son
For Jessica, My Daughter
From The Long Sad Party
The Late Hour
The Story
For Her
So You Say
Poor North
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