The fourth Poet Laureate of the United States (1996-1997), Mark Strand (born 1934) wrote poems on subjects ranging from dark and terrible wrestlings with one's fears and alter egos to joyous celebrations of life and light. He won the Pulizer Prize for...

Mark Strand was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and did his undergraduate work at Antioch College in Ohio, where he completed his B.A. degree in 1957. During the next two years he attended Yale University, receiving the Cook prize and the Bergin...

Poet Laureate Mark Strand believes that landscape is frequently a decor rather than the central element of his poems. He is preoccupied with the essence of life. He asserts that poets should not be swayed by fashions and that, like painters, they should rely...

"Say," I said. "If translation is a kind of reading, the assumption or transformation of one personal idiom into another, then shouldn't it be possible to translate work done in one's own language? Shouldn't it be possible to translate Wordsworth or Shelley into...

In the following excerpt, Kirby examines Strand's 1973 collection, The Story of Our Lives and the 1978 collection, The Monument. Kirby comments that the first is characterized by a marked change in style from the poetry of Strand's earlier volumes, and the second by a highly original combination of poetry and prose.

In the following excerpt, Maio explores Strand's handling of issues of poetic voice and tone involving absence and self-negation in individual poems from Sleeping with One Eye Open, Reasons for Moving, and Darker.

In the following essay, Gregerson contends that in Strand's later work the focus of his poetry shifts from renunciation to restoration.

Explores Mark Strand's use of Literary Terms to not only identify with the reader but to also depict the natural setting in a selection of his poetry.