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	Mark Strand Biography and Summary
		The fourth Poet Laureate of the United States (1996-1997), Mark Strand (born 1934) wrote poems on subjects ranging from dark and terrible wrestlings with one's fears and alter egos to joyous celebrations of life and light.
		Mark Strand was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and did his undergraduate work at Antioch College in Ohio, where he completed his B.A. degree in 1957.
		Mark Strand (born April 11, 1934) is an American poet, born in Canada.
	www.bookrags.com /Mark_Strand (296 words)

	Mark Strand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mark Strand (born April 11, 1934) is an American poet, born in Canada.
		Mark Strand is a poet, essayist, and translator who was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada on April 11, 1934.
		Strand has since taught at many universities and published eleven books of poetry, in addition to translations from the poetry of Rafael Alberti and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, among others.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Strand (323 words)

	About Mark Strand's Poetry
		Strand is both nervous and morbid, and a consideration of finality is his constant project, sustained here by shifting the responsibility for the imminent wreck from "the reaches of ourselves" to the ambiguity instinct in language.
		Strand reads Stevens, however, as having successfully avoided such pretense by constructing poems that begin about another's concerns, then move outward to embrace universal questions: "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle," and "The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage" are a few examples from his early work.
		Yet Strand's objective is to achieve the same extent of impartiality, and impersonality, while using an "I" speaker that is neither a persona (that is, a representative "I" speaking in behalf of all) nor one that is entirely confessional.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/s_z/strand/poetry.htm (742 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Mark Strand CD
		Mark Strand was born on Canada's Prince Edward Island in 1934, and was raised and educated in the United States and South America.
		Listen to Mark Strand...," says Library Journal of this recording.
		As Orr observes in his introduction, Strand's poetry is marked by a striking "clarity and succinctness of language" and by the "seeming ease with which he fuses the metaphysical and the imaginative." Strand reads from a number of his collections.
	www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/17068 (141 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Mark Strand (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mark Strand is a former Poet Laureate of the United States.
		Mark Strand is the author of nine books of poems, including Blizzard of One, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize.
		Reasons for Moving was Mark Strand's first book, and on its publication in 1968 Donald Justice called him "maybe the very best of the new poets." Darker followed, and Robert Penn Warren said, "the moment is always exciting when a true poet finds the secret self that is the wellspring of...
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=30082 (383 words)

	Mark Strand, Blizzard of One
		Mark Strand was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1934, and was raised and educated in the United States and South America.
		Strand can't escape the momentary nature of experience: In the revelatory 'Suite of Appearances', he captures the fluidity of the self and reminds us that the history of ourselves leaves us cold, the past means nothing to our ever-present nowness.
		Risking tautology, Strand suggests that the self is both a disguise and not one, that all things are wronged / By representation, an idea that helps explain his precise diction, however wronged the object he hopes to describe.
	www.waywiser-press.com /strand.html (1134 words)

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		After all the strand ends are taped, continue to unbraid the rope until you reach the tape at the Splice Tail Mark.
		Leaving the rope in position to maintain the shape of the soft eye, count 4 strands down from the insertion point and mark one of the strands at the 4th strand.
		The strands that the Paired Strand pass over or under progress in a straight line down the rope and run in the same direction as the strand that has the mark on it.
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	Edward Byrne: "Weather Watch: Mark Strand's 'The Weather of Words'"
		Strand emphasizes the power and importance of the lyric poem in "A Poet's Alphabet" from The Weather of Words, declaring "that death is the central concern of lyric poetry.
		Strand observes that "rarely in The Prelude does Wordsworth fall into the habit of naming, and when he does, his poem is weakest and takes on some of the shortcomings" of the foremost confessional poets, including Lowell and Berryman.
		Strand's comments on the way such snapshots evoke emotional response seem to be similar to his comments about McLeish's poem being "both about time and in time." He is moved by the way a photograph in which he appears with his mother "is so much in the moment in which it was taken.
	www.valpo.edu /english/vpr/byrnereviewstrand.html (4914 words)

	Mark Strand -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The poetry of Canadian-born U.S. writer and translator Mark Strand is noted for its surreal quality, and it explores the boundaries of the self and the external world.
		Strand also served as poet laureate of the United States and won the 1999 Pulitzer prize for poetry for his collection Blizzard of One.
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	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9351291 (779 words)

	Poet Mark Strand receives 2004 Wallace Stevens Award
		Poet Mark Strand of the University of Chicago, the former poet laureate of the United States and a Pulitzer Prize winner, has received the 2004 Wallace Stevens Award, an honor bestowed by the Academy of American Poets that carries with it a $100,000 prize.
		Strand, who has been a member of the University's faculty for seven years as the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, said being associated with the award's namesake, Wallace Stevens, is also humbling.
		Strand is the author of nine other books of poetry, as well as three children's books.
	www-news.uchicago.edu /releases/04/041011.strand.shtml (393 words)

	Poet Mark Strand to join University faculty this spring (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mark Strand, a distinguished poet whose work earned him the title of national poet laureate, will become Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, beginning in spring quarter.
		Strand was Regents Park Visiting Professor at the University in spring 1996 and was again a visiting scholar in spring 1997.
		Strand's classes have appealed to a wide cross-section of the University, attracting graduate students throughout the social sciences and humanities, as well as College students and students from the professional schools, Tarcov said.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /980305/strand.shtml (616 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Mark Strand
		Strand's first commercial collection, preceded by a small limited edition from Stonewall Press in 1964.
		Strand's third commercial collec tion, which begins with a long elegy for his father.
		Litanies and lists, Strand returning once again to one of his strengths, the repeti tion and surprise of parallel statements.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Mark_Strand (1028 words)

	B.U. Bridge: Boston University community's weekly newspaper
		Strand visited BU in 2000 for a poetry reading, which included a pair of villanelles from Blizzard of One inspired by the paintings of Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, and a poem dedicated to painter Neil Welliver.
		Strand wrote the poem “She,” based on the artist’s “Elles” series of 11 color lithographs that were at the core of the 100 graphics being exhibited at the gallery that month.
		Strand also came to BU for a reading in 1990 and was introduced by another poet-painter, his friend Derek Walcott, a CAS professor of creative writing and the 1992 recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature.
	www.bu.edu /bridge/archive/2004/10-08/hamill.html (690 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Pulitzer for Poetry -- April 15, 1999
		MARK STRAND: Well, I don't think anyone is a poet unless they've read other poems.
		MARK STRAND: Well, I think, when I write, I try to resist reading my poems as long as possible, and type seems too final.
		MARK STRAND: Well, I mean, it's a statement that poetry is not a well-paid endeavor.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june99/pulitzer_4-15.html (1287 words)

	[minstrels] Keeping Things Whole -- Mark Strand
		This sparse, philosophical free verse poem is from Mark Strand's 1964 "Sleeping With One Eye Open".
		Strand teaches at the University of Chicago, and is the Poet Laureate of the U.S. (though born a Canadian...
		From: Tracy Mattingly Mark Strand was the Poet Laureate in 1990-1.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/453.html (452 words)

	Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery
		This watercolor of Mark Strand was made as a gift in 1983 when both men were collaborating on a book about contemporary figurative painters.
		Strand, a nationally acclaimed poet and former poet laureate, originally planned to be an artist.
		Pearlstein attracted Strand's attention as one of a group of figurative painters who, in the wake of abstract expressionism, suggested through their work "that our relationship to the physical world, a relationship that is perpetually in danger of being destroyed by inattention, can be salvaged."
	www.npg.si.edu /cexh/eye/html/l_strand.htm (182 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms - Mark Strand - Paperback
		Strand and Boland begin by promising to "look squarely at some of the headaches" of poetic form: the building blocks of poetry.
		Strand, who's won the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship and has served as U.S. Poet Laureate, and Boland, an abundantly talented Irish poet who has also written a beautiful book of essays on writing and womanhood, are both accustomed to teaching.
		Strand, now at the University of Chicago, and Boland, a Stanford professor, draw upon decades in the classroom to anticipate most questions.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=0393321789&&bnrefer=0-10000-5000000000000-5000000&bnit=h (1967 words)

	The Johns Hopkins News-Letter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Now we find out that Mark Strand, arguably one of the most widely recognized poets Johns Hopkins has ever had teaching on its campus, will also be leaving.
		Strand, who in 1990 received the highest honors that the United States bestows upon poets when he was named Poet Laureate, will begin teaching at the University of Chicago in March.
		In the case of Mark Strand and Mark Crispin Miller, that is a formidable task.
	www.jhu.edu /~newslett/01-29-98/Opinions/1.html (347 words)

	Woodland Pattern > Mark Strand (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mark Strand is the author of ten books of poems, including Blizzard of One, which was awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize.
		Strand has also published a book of short stories, several translations from European and Latin American poets, essays, three children's books, and several monographs on contemporary artists.
		"Mark Strand has chosen the negative path, with loss as the first step towards fullness: it is also the opening to a transparent verbal perfection." The Library Journal said of his work, "No poet his age has a more human voice or a more piercing melancholy...
	www.woodlandpattern.org /poems/mark_strand01.shtml (254 words)

	Fellow writers celebrate poetic mastery in work of Mark Strand (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mark Strand, winner of the 2004 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.
		Mark Strand, the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, has received the 2004 Wallace Stevens Award, an honor bestowed by the Academy of American Poets, which carries with it a $100,000 prize.
		Strand, who has been a member of the University’s faculty for seven years, said being associated with the award’s namesake, Wallace Stevens, also is humbling.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /041021/strand.shtml (391 words)

	Strand, Mark on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Poem By Former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand Featured On A Billboard Above One Of Chicago's Busiest Intersections.
		The Poetry Center Presents Former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand on April 1, 2004 at Chicago's Metro Music Club.
		Breakup marks Allina star's fall from glory; David Strand was once the health organization's CEO heir apparent, but the same qualities that won him accolades also may have been his undoing, many say.(NEWS)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Strand-M1.asp (592 words)

	Mark Strand Profile
		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.
		Mark's eight other volumes of poetry include Reasons for Moving, The Monument, The Continuous Life, and Dark Harbor.
		Mark was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and was raised and educated in the United States.
	www.humanities.uci.edu /icwt/whoweare/mstrand.html (127 words)

	'Blizzard of One' & 'The Weather of Words' by Mark Strand \| Robert West \| Book Reviews: Poetry \| Oyster Boy Review ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Blizzard of One, former poet laureate Mark Strand's ninth collection, is a mixed bag.
		Strand deftly evokes De Chirico's troubling cityscape, but he also offers context and interpretation: "Somewhere to the south a Duke is slain, / A war is won.
		Strand made his reputation early, with poems evoking paranoid fantasies and horrifying dream-visions; who could have foreseen him evolving into such a romantic?
	www.oysterboyreview.com /archived/13/WestR-Strand.html (553 words)

	Borges - Influence: Mark Strand
		Poet and essayist, Mark Strand was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, but raised and educated primarily in the United States and South America.
		Also known as a translator, Strand has rendered many Spanish language poets into English verse, and was one of the contributing translators to the newly published Selected Poems, published by Viking press in 1999.
		Strand's style is a wonderful mixture of psychological aberration and nightmarish dream state, punctuated by a stoic, sometimes aloof resignation by the poet.
	www.themodernword.com /borges/borges_infl_strand.html (505 words)

	JHU loses Mark Strand (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Strand, who has published nine books of poetry and was poetry editor at The New Republic, has taught poetry workshops to Hopkins graduate and undergraduate students since 1994.
		Strand explains that he might have considered staying if the University had made a reasonable counteroffer.
		Some think Strand's departure is related to the recent loss of Writing Seminars Chairman Mark Crispin Miller.
	www.jhu.edu /~newslett/01-29-98/News/1.html (672 words)

	Mark Strand -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Strand was influenced stylistically by Latin American surrealism and such European writers as Franz Kafka, and his poetry, especially his earliest works, is replete with symbolic imagery and minimalist sensibility.
		Collections of Strand's poetry include Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964), Reasons for Moving (1968), Darker (1970), The Story of Our Lives (1973), The Late Hour (1978), Selected Poems (1980), The Continuous Life (1990), and Dark Harbor (1993), the latter a book-length poem.
		Strand edited The Contemporary American Poets (1969), New Poetry of Mexico (1970), and, with Charles Simic, Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers (1976).
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9099807 (971 words)

	Mark Strand Appointed V P of Government for AWK (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Strand has more than 19 years of experience in the United States House of Representatives.
		"Mark’s extensive experience in the legislative environment will be extremely valuable as we continue to foster national and local relationships," said Mr.
		Strand has held numerous legislative committee positions including Executive Director of the Taxpayers Protection Caucus and Fiscal and Budget Affairs Advisor for the American Legislative Council (ALEC).
	www.waterindustry.org /Water-Facts/AWK.htm (267 words)

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