Mark Strand - Wikipedia Mark Strand From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator Mark Strand Strand at Georgetown University, 2012 Born (1934-04-11)April 11, 1934 Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada Died November 29, 2014(2014-11-29) (aged 80) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Occupation Poet, translator, novelist, essayist Nationality American, Canadian Education Antioch College; Iowa Writers' Workshop Mark 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. Strand was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University from 2005 until his death in 2014. Contents 1 Biography 2 Poetry 3 Academic career 3.1 Teaching positions 3.2 Visiting professor 4 Awards 5 Bibliography 5.1 Poetry[7] 5.2 Prose[7] 5.3 Poetry translations 5.4 Editor 6 References 7 External links Biography[edit] Strand was born in 1934 at Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada.[1] Raised in a secular Jewish family,[2][3] he spent his early years in North America and much of his adolescence in South and Central America. Strand graduated from Oakwood Friends School in 1951[4][5] and in 1957 earned his B.A. from Antioch College in Ohio.[6] He then studied painting under Josef Albers at Yale University, where he earned a B.F.A in 1959.[6] On a U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission scholarship, Strand studied 19th-century Italian poetry in Florence in 1960–61.[6] He attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa the following year and earned a Master of Arts in 1962.[6] In 1965 he spent a year in Brazil as a Fulbright Lecturer.[7] In 1981, Strand was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.[8] He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress during the 1990–91 term.[9] In 1997, he left Johns Hopkins University to accept the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professorship of Social Thought at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. From 2005 to his death, Strand taught literature and creative writing at Columbia University, in New York City.[6] Strand received numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1987 and the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, for Blizzard of One.[6] Strand died of liposarcoma on November 29, 2014, in Brooklyn, New York.[10][11] Poetry[edit] Many of Strand's poems are nostalgic in tone, evoking the bays, fields, boats, and pines of his Prince Edward Island childhood. He has been compared to Robert Bly in his use of surrealism, though he attributes his poems' surreal elements to an admiration of the works of Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, and René Magritte.[12] Strand's poems use plain and concrete language, usually without rhyme or meter. In a 1971 interview, he said, "I feel very much a part of a new international style that has a lot to do with plainness of diction, a certain reliance on surrealist techniques, and a strong narrative element."[12] Academic career[edit] Strand's academic career took him to various colleges and universities, including:[7] Teaching positions[edit] University of Iowa, Iowa City, instructor in English, 1962–1965 University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Fulbright lecturer, 1965–1966 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, assistant professor, 1967 Columbia University, New York City, adjunct associate professor, 1969–1972 Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, New York City, associate professor, 1970–1972 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Bain-Swiggett Lecturer, 1973 Brandeis University, Hurst professor of poetry, 1974–1975 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, professor of English, 1981–1993 Johns Hopkins University, Elliot Coleman Professor of Poetry, 1994–c. 1998 University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought, 1998 – ca. 2005 Columbia University, New York City, professor of English and Comparative Literature, ca. 2005–2014 Visiting professor[edit] University of Washington, 1968, 1970 Columbia University, 1980 Yale University, 1969–1970 University of Virginia, 1976, 1978 California State University at Fresno, 1977 University of California at Irvine, 1979 Wesleyan University, 1979 Harvard University, 1980 Awards[edit] Strand was awarded the following:[1] 1960–1961: Fulbright Fellowship 1979: Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets 1987: MacArthur Fellowship 1990–1991: Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress 1992: Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry 1993: Bollingen Prize 1999: Pulitzer Prize, for Blizzard of One 2004: Wallace Stevens Award 2009: Gold Medal in Poetry, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters[13] Bibliography[edit] Poetry[7][edit] 1964: Sleeping with One Eye Open, Stone Wall Press 1968: Reasons for Moving: Poems, Atheneum 1970: Darker: Poems, including "The New Poetry Handbook", Atheneum 1973: The Story of Our Lives, Atheneum ISBN 9780689105760 1973: The Sargentville Notebook, Burning Deck 1975: From Two Notebooks, No Mountains Poetry Project 1976: My Son, No Mountains Poetry Project 1978: Elegy for My Father, Windhover 1978: The Late Hour, Atheneum 1980: Selected Poems, including "Keeping Things Whole", Atheneum 1990: The Continuous Life, Knopf ISBN 9780679738442 1990: New Poems 1991: The Monument, Ecco Press (see also The Monument, 1978, prose) 1993: Dark Harbor: A Poem, long poem divided into 55 sections, Knopf 1998: Blizzard of One: Poems, Knopf winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for poetry 1999: Chicken, Shadow, Moon & More, with illustrations by the author, Turtle Point Press 1999: "89 Clouds" a single poem, monotypes by Wendy Mark and introduction by Thomas Hoving, ACA Galleries (New York) 2006: Man and Camel, Knopf[1] ISBN 9780375711268 2007: New Selected Poems[14] 2012: Almost Invisible, Random House, ISBN 9780307957313 2014: Collected Poems, Knopf ISBN 9780385352512 Prose[7][edit] 1978: The Monument, Ecco (see also The Monument, 1991, poetry) ISBN 9780880012744 1982: Contributor: Claims for Poetry, edited by Donald Hall, University of Michigan Press 1982: The Planet of Lost Things, for children 1983: The Art of the Real, art criticism, C. N. Potter 1985: The Night Book, for children 1985: Mr. and Mrs. Baby and Other Stories, short stories, Knopf ISBN 9780880013864 1986: Rembrandt Takes a Walk, for children 1987: William Bailey, art criticism, Abrams 1993: Contributor: Within This Garden: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Columbia College Chicago/Aperture Foundation 1994: Hopper, art criticism, Ecco Press ISBN 9780307957108 2000: The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention, Knopf 2000: With Eavan Boland, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Norton (New York) Poetry translations[edit] 1971: 18 Poems from the Quechua, Halty Ferguson[1] 1973: The Owl's Insomnia, poems by Rafael Alberti, Atheneum[1] 1976: Souvenir of the Ancient World, poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Antaeus Editions[14] 2002: Looking for Poetry: Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Rafael Alberti, with Songs from the Quechua[14] 1993: Contributor: "Canto IV", Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contemporary Poets edited by Daniel Halpern, Harper Perennial 1986, according to one source, or 1987, according to another source:[7] Traveling in the Family, poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, with Thomas Colchie; translator with Elizabeth Bishop, Colchie, and Gregory Rabassa) Random House[7] Editor[edit] 1968: The Contemporary American Poets, New American Library[1] 1970: New Poetry of Mexico, Dutton[1] 1976: Another Republic: Seventeen European and South American Writers, with Charles Simic, Ecco[1] 1991: The Best American Poetry 1991, Macmillan[7] 1994: Golden Ecco Anthology, Ecco Press[7] 1994: The Golden Ecco Anthology[1] 2005: 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century, W. W. Norton[1] References[edit] ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Mark Strand". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved December 3, 2014. ^ Kevane, Bridgette (June 29, 2011). "What Is Missing". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved December 3, 2014. ^ Italie, Hillel (November 30, 2014). "Pulitzer laureate Mark Strand dies at 80". The Times of Israel. Retrieved December 3, 2014. ^ "Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Strand dies at 80". The Poughkeepsie Journal. Associated Press. November 30, 2014. Retrieved July 6, 2015. ^ Shawn, Wallace (Fall 1998). "Mark Strand, The Art of Poetry No. 77". The Paris Review. Retrieved December 3, 2014. ^ a b c d e f Grimes, William (November 29, 2014). "Mark Strand, 80, Dies; Pulitzer-Winning Poet Laureate". The New York Times. Retrieved November 29, 2014. ^ a b c d e f g h "Mark Strand". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved December 3, 2014. ^ "Deceased Members". American Academy of Arts and Letters. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2014. ^ "Poet Laureate Timeline: 1991-2000". Library of Congress. 2008. Retrieved January 1, 2009. ^ Rivera, Joshua (November 30, 2014). "Pulitzer-Winning Poet Laureate Mark Strand Dead at 80". Time. Retrieved December 3, 2014. ^ "Mark Strand, former US poet laureate, dies aged 80". The Guardian. November 30, 2014. Retrieved December 3, 2014. ^ a b Perkins, George; Perkins, Barbara (1988). Contemporary American Literature. New York: McGraw Hill. p. 953. ISBN 9780075549543. ^ "The American Academy of Arts and Letters announces newly elected members and award winners". American Academy of Arts and Letters. April 14, 2009. Archived from the original on June 17, 2011. ^ a b c "Mark Strand, UI Graduate 62MA (Former UI Faculty)". The University of Iowa Alumni Association. Retrieved December 3, 2014. External links[edit] Wikiquote has quotations related to: Mark Strand "Mark Strand, The Art of Poetry No. 77". The Paris Review (Interview) (148). Interviewed by Wallace Shawn. Fall 1998. v t e Poets Laureate / Consultants in Poetry to the Library of Congress Joseph Auslander (1937) Allen Tate (1943) Robert Penn Warren (1944) Louise Bogan (1945) Karl Shapiro (1946) Robert Lowell (1947) Léonie Adams (1948) Elizabeth Bishop (1949) Conrad Aiken (1950) William Carlos Williams (1952) Randall Jarrell (1956) Robert Frost (1958) Richard Eberhart (1959) Louis Untermeyer (1961) Howard Nemerov (1963) Reed Whittemore (1964) Stephen Spender (1965) James Dickey (1966) William Jay Smith (1968) William Stafford (1970) Josephine Jacobsen (1971) Daniel Hoffman (1973) Stanley Kunitz (1974) Robert Hayden (1976) William Meredith (1978) Maxine Kumin (1981) Anthony Hecht (1982) Reed Whittemore (1984) Robert Fitzgerald (1984) Gwendolyn Brooks (1985) Robert Penn Warren (1986) Richard Wilbur (1987) Howard Nemerov (1988) Mark Strand (1990) Joseph Brodsky (1991) Mona Van Duyn (1992) Rita Dove (1993) Robert Hass (1995) Robert Pinsky (1997) Rita Dove, Louise Glück & W. S. Merwin (1999) Stanley Kunitz (2000) Billy Collins (2001) Louise Glück (2003) Ted Kooser (2004) Donald Hall (2006) Charles Simic (2007) Kay Ryan (2008–2010) W. S. Merwin (2010–2011) Philip Levine (2011–2012) Natasha Trethewey (2012–2014) Charles Wright (2014–2015) Juan Felipe Herrera (2015–2017) Tracy K. Smith (2017–2019) Joy Harjo (2019–present) v t e Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1976–2000) John Ashbery (1976) James Merrill (1977) Howard Nemerov (1978) Robert Penn Warren (1979) Donald Justice (1980) James Schuyler (1981) Sylvia Plath (1982) Galway Kinnell (1983) Mary Oliver (1984) Carolyn Kizer (1985) Henry S. Taylor (1986) Rita Dove (1987) William Meredith (1988) Richard Wilbur (1989) Charles Simic (1990) Mona Van Duyn (1991) James Tate (1992) Louise Glück (1993) Yusef Komunyakaa (1994) Philip Levine (1995) Jorie Graham (1996) Lisel Mueller (1997) Charles Wright (1998) Mark Strand (1999) C. K. 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