Mark Strand

Richard Jackson (Other)

Ed. by Nick Selby, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 11 Apr 1934
Died 29 Nov 2014
Activity 1964-2014

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Poet
Teacher/ Professor
Translator

Resources

Strand's Works

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In an interview in 1979, Mark Strand identifies the dichotomy that is at the heart if his vision:

If you’re as deeply alienated as I am or as I believe I am [then] you’re at some loss to know if the life you have is yours because you have it or because you say you have it. There is something more real about the representations of my life that culminate as poems than in the everydayness of my living. (Acts of Mind, 15).

Acts of

Mind, 15).

For Strand, it is a reality that

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Citation: Jackson, Richard. "Mark Strand". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 March 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4258, accessed 21 November 2024.]