New Selected Poems of Mark Strand

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments from Sleeping 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 from Reasons 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 from Darker 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 from The Story of Our Lives Elegy for My Father In Celebration The Story of Our Lives The Untelling The Monument from The 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 Pot Roast The House in French Village The Garden Snowfall from Selected Poems Shooting Whales Nights in Hackett’s Cove A Morning My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer from The Continuous Life The Idea Velocity Meadows A.M. Orpheus Alone Fiction Luminism Life in the Valley The Continuous Life Always Se la vita è sventura . . . ? One Winter Night The History of Poetry The Continental College of Beauty The Midnight Club The Famous Scene Itself Now Reading in Place The End from Dark Harbor I, VII, VIII, XIV, XVI, XX, XXII, XXIII, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXXI, XXXV, XXXVI, XXXIX, XL, XLIII, XLIV, XLV\ from Blizzard of One The Beach Hotel Old Man Leaves Party IWill Love the Twenty-first Century The Next Time The Night, the Porch 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 In Memory of Joseph Brodsky What It Was The Delirium Waltz The View from Man and Camel The King I Had Been a Polar Explorer Man and Camel Fire The Rose Storm Afterwords Elevator Black Sea Mother and Son Mirror Moon Marsyas My Name Poem After the Seven Last Words

About the Author :
Mark Strand has received numerous honors and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1990 he was named Poet Laureate of the United States. A longtime resident of Chicago, he now lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

Review :
“The first panoramic view of . . . a poet who has mattered deeply to poets and readers alike. Strand’s is one of the contemporary voices that will not fade.” —Publishers Weekly “New Selected Poems is a necessary book . . . Among the best work by any living poet.” —Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker