Reasons for Moving

Name: Reasons for Moving
Author: Mark Strand

by Mark Strand

Collection of meditative, solitary poems about absence and psychological states

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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.

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