The Story of Our Lives

Name: The Story of Our Lives
Author: Mark Strand

by Mark Strand

Narrative poems examining desire, memory, and the construction of identity

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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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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
Blizzard of OneCollection exploring isolation, blizzard as metaphor, and solipsism