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Bookmark or Share- Mark Strand - WikipediaMark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004.
- Mark Strand | The Poetry FoundationMark Strand was recognized as one of the premier American poets of his generation as well as an accomplished editor, translator, and prose writer. The hallmarks of his style are precise language, surreal imagery, and the recurring theme of absence and negation; later collections investigate ideas of the self with pointed, often urbane wit.
- About Mark Strand - Academy of American PoetsStrand served as poet laureate of the United States from 1990 to 1991 and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1995 to 2000. He taught English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York City.
- Mark Strand's Poetry Moved Easily From Common To SublimeMark Strand, a former U.S. poet laureate, passed away yesterday at the age of 80. His work was spare and haunting, devoid of embellishment. His deceptively simple poems explored the strangeness...
- Mark Strand | Poet, Writer, Translator | BritannicaMark Strand (born April 11, 1934, Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada—died November 29, 2014, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) was a Canadian poet, writer of short fiction, and translator whose poetry, noted for its surreal quality, explores the boundaries of the self and the external world.
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