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It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. He has written eight earlier books of poems, which have brought him many honors and grants, including a MacArthur Fellowship. Many of the poems are multi-sectioned or parts of suites. This was my first extended encounter with Strand's work and while I did not love it I certainly thought it was worthwhile read, I'll look at some of his work from a different era in the future. The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration. From the brilliant and unmatched Mark Strand, “Blizzard of One” is yet another masterpiece of the English language, a votive candle to a strange and restless sense of the world we live in. of the Dog in the Night-Time. And yet, this is definitely a collection worth reading, because the good poems here are really very good indeed, and the best of them are quite remarkable. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Now, THESE, I don't even know how this guy got to be Poet Laureate, let alone win the Pulitzer! Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand. This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit. And our shadows floated away beneath us towards sunset and darkened the backs of birds, and blackened the sea whose breath smelled slightly of fish, of almonds, and of rotting fruit. "If you think good things are on their way. Wry at times but not really humorous, definitely on the somber/reflective side. The poems are filled with "the weather of leavetaking," but they are also unexpectedly funny. "A Piece of the Storm"From the shadow of domes in the city of domes,A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your roomAnd made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking upFrom your book, saw it the moment it landed. Start by marking “Blizzard of One” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Wonderful book of poems. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. I'll take populists who speak to ME and millions of others around the world any day, such as Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Locklin, and of course, Bukowski. My favorite was "What It Was." The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration. I settled on 4 stars because I would give some of the poems 5 and others 3 or maybe 2. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. All that I saw was a vast celebration of transparence, a clear dream of nothing. Strand is an interesting case, insomuch as he's been around so long that his work tends to drift through different periods. ", ©1997-2020 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. 122 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. The review listed from the publisher here states that Strand's poetry "occupies the space between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience." There are no discussion topics on this book yet. He teaches currently in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Something went wrong. This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Please try again. It was cold, and I found myself suddenly back with the others. The sky has an opening. An astonishingly epic imagination matched only by a profound wisdom and a carefully-guarded wit. Pure, dull boredom. Use up arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+up arrow) and down arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+down arrow) to review and enter to select. I found it dull as bricks and painful to get through. her astonishing journey into adulthood—a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas, and ways of life that seem a century apart. There are moments of beauty, of unique vision, of the well-wrought line and the inspired attention. Mark Strand is a former Poet Laureate of the United States. His work is very understandable but still has a lot of depth--somewhat like Robert Frost. As in all his work, Strand again proves you don't have to bury your head in the minutia all the time, and that the obvious symbol can still be beautiful when in the hands of a master. There are fine fine poems. They are interesting enough (there's a 'row, row, row your boat' quality to 'The Delirium Waltz' that made me smile), and some of the lines really do gleam, so I wouldn't want to go so far as to call them 'filler', but for me they do hang a bit heavy. Biography Mark Strand was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and was raised and educated in the United States and South America. a la inauguración de un descubrimiento que “cambiará para siempre la faz de la ciencia”. You can view Barnes & Noble’s Privacy Policy. Yes, they really are that good. 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