Mark Strand
American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Blizzard of One and served as Poet Laureate. His spare, existentialist poems about absence and self are among the most distinctive in American poetry.
Works
- Sleeping with One Eye OpenDebut poems exploring insomnia, anxiety, and the dissolution of self
- Reasons for MovingCollection of meditative, solitary poems about absence and psychological states
- DarkerLyric poems about darkness, negation, and the limits of language
- The Story of Our LivesNarrative poems examining desire, memory, and the construction of identity
- Blizzard of OneCollection exploring isolation, blizzard as metaphor, and solipsism