Mark Strand (1934 - )

Mark Strand, former Poet Laureate of the United States, has won numerous grants and awards, including the Bobbitt and Bollingen Poetry Prizes, a MacArthur fellowship, and Ingram Merrill, Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and NEA grants. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Blizzard of One, which was published in 1999. Mark's eight other volumes of poetry include Reasons for Moving, The Monument, The Continuous Life and Dark Harbor.

He has also published a collection of stories, numerous translations, and several anthologies. In addition, Mark has written extensively on contemporary art, including a book on the painter Edward Hopper. Mark was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and was raised and educated in the United States. He currently teaches in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

The poems are by default sorted according to volume, but you can also choose to sort them alphabetically or by page views.

First Line	Comments
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1 If a man understands a poem,	21 Comments
For Sharon Horvath
I empty myself of the names of others. I empty my pockets.	1 Comment
I give up my eyes which are glass eggs.
In a field	8 Comments
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.	5 Comments
It is all in the mind, you say, and has	1 Comment
It is an old story, the way it happens	1 Comment
Someone was saying	1 Comment
Tell yourself	8 Comments
The relatives are leaning over, staring expectantly.
There is a girl you like so you tell her	3 Comments
We have done what we wanted.
Why did you travel?	1 Comment