| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
55 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Untitled -- The beach hotel -- Old man leaves party -- I will love the twenty-first century -- The next time -- The night, the porch -- Precious little -- The great poet returns -- Our masterpiece is the private live -- Morning, noon, and night -- A piece of the storm -- A suite of appearances -- Here -- Two de Chiricos -- Some last words -- Five dogs -- In memory of Joseph Brodsky -- What it was -- The delirium waltz -- The view. |
| Summary |
Strand'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. |
| Awards |
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1999. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
0375401393 |
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9780375401398 |
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0375701370 (pbk.) |
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9780375701375 (pbk.) |
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