{"title":"Mark Strand","description":"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.","products":[{"product_id":"almost-invisible-paperback","title":"Almost Invisible - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376799875295,"sku":"9780375712180","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/JPV8pXc9tb9780375712180.webp?v=1789225369"},{"product_id":"blizzard-of-one-pulitzer-prize-winner-paperback","title":"Blizzard of One: Pulitzer Prize Winner - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePULITZER PRIZE WINNER - \u003c\/b\u003eStrand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with \"the weather of leavetaking,\" but they are also unexpectedly funny. The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration. This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, \u003cb\u003eBlizzard of One\u003c\/b\u003e is an extraordinary book--the summation of the work of a lifetime by one of our very few true masters of the art of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with \"the weather of leavetaking,\" but they are also unexpectedly funny. The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration. This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Blizzard of One is an extraordinary book--the summation of the work of a lifetime by one of our very few true masters of the art of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378343510239,"sku":"9780375701375","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Bd97GPbKYW9780375701375.webp?v=1789254450"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-of-mark-strand-paperback","title":"Selected Poems of Mark Strand - Paperback","description":"\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this compilation of older and newer poems, Strand demonstrates his mastery of cadence and narrative style.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378532253919,"sku":"9780679733010","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/SqnGQpW2QU9780679733010.webp?v=1789257988"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/mark-strand.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}