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Accounting for the great range of style and content with which poets such as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Federico García Lorca, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Butler Yeats, Pablo Neruda, and Jorge Luis Borges responded to the changes and challenges of the twentieth century, 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century is intended as both a unique compendium for the already well-versed and as an engaging introduction for those new to the expansive world of poetry. Alan Ginsberg's struggle--"What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman....In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!"--is echoed by other remarkable poets in this international collection of exciting and moving poems that are alike not in their length or for their status as seminal texts but because they are impossible to forget.
Author Notes
Mark Strand was born on April 11, 1934 in Summerside on Prince Edward Island in Canada. Since his father's job resulted in many transfers, he spent his childhood in Cleveland, Halifax, Montreal, New York and Philadelphia and his teenage years in Colombia, Mexico and Peru. He received a bachelor's degree at Antioch College in Ohio in 1957, a bachelor of fine arts in painting from Yale University School of Art and Architecture in 1959, and a master of fine arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1962. He studied 19th-century Italian poetry in Florence on a Fulbright Grant from 1960-1961.
His first poetry collection, Sleeping with One Eye Open, was published in 1964. His other works included Reasons for Moving, Darker, The Story of Our Lives, The Late Hour, A Continuous Life, Dark Harbor, and Collected Poems: Mark Strand. In 1990, he was named the fourth Poet Laureate of the United States. He received the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1993 and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1999 for Blizzard of One.
In 1980, he felt that he had reached an impasse and stopped writing poetry for several years. During that time, he wrote several children's books including The Planet of Lost Things and Mr. and Mrs. Baby. He also wrote books on the painters EdwardHopper and William Bailey, and a collection of critical essays entitled The Art of the Real. He died of liposarcoma on November 29, 2014 at the age of 80.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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Library Journal Review
Any poetry anthology can be an argument waiting to happen, but Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate Strand (Blizzard of One) preempts criticism by acknowledging up front the subjectivity of his choices, his biases and benchmarks. (About half of these "100 great poems" come from Americans, though none are by U.S. poets born after 1927.) Strand admits that the absence of poems from Asia and Africa reflects a personal lack of knowledge, which may not appease literary census-takers. Yet he includes an intriguing mix of the expected (Eliot's "Prufrock," Thomas's "Fern Hill," Bishop's "In the Waiting Room," Auden's elegy for Yeats), the pleasantly surprising (Fernando Pessoa's "The Tobacco Shop," Ruth Stone's "That Winter," Wislawa Szymborska's "The End and the Beginning"), and the simply puzzling (Rafael Alberti's ode to Buster Keaton, Ezra Pound's "Canto XLV"). Though Strand's selections vary in tone and length, most poems tend toward imagistic, lyrical meditation, sometimes referencing the wars, gulags, and genocidal terrors that characterize the century's history. Idiosyncrasy is both this collection's liability and its strength, so readers can expect a provocative if not uniformly satisfying experience. For larger poetry collections.-Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib., Ithaca, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
Preface | p. 17 |
Northern Elegies | p. 21 |
Buster Keaton Looks in the Woods for His Love Who Is a Real Cow | p. 33 |
We Have Done Our Duty | p. 36 |
The City Limits | p. 38 |
Residue | p. 39 |
Ode to the Bourgeois Gentleman | p. 43 |
Fatness | p. 45 |
The Pretty Redhead | p. 48 |
Syringa | p. 50 |
In Memory of W. B. Yeats | p. 54 |
To the Sun | p. 58 |
The Moon and the Night and the Men | p. 60 |
In the Waiting Room | p. 62 |
Evening in the Sanitarium | p. 66 |
In Praise of Darkness | p. 68 |
Waiting for the Barbarians | p. 70 |
Death Fugue | p. 72 |
Menus | p. 74 |
Batouque | p. 77 |
Poem on Death | p. 84 |
Marine Surface, Low Overcast | p. 92 |
My Grandmother's Love Letters | p. 94 |
Mid-way | p. 96 |
The Helmsman | p. 98 |
On an East Wind from the Wars | p. 100 |
This Place Rumored to Have Been Sodom | p. 101 |
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | p. 103 |
The Mad Pomegranate Tree | p. 109 |
An Old Man's Winter Night | p. 111 |
Prayer | p. 112 |
A Supermarket in California | p. 114 |
Lament | p. 116 |
The Convergence of the Twain | p. 121 |
At Mornington | p. 124 |
Witch Doctor | p. 127 |
"More Light! More Light!" | p. 131 |
Mr. Cogito Thinks About Hell | p. 133 |
Things I Didn't Know I Loved | p. 134 |
Translated from the German or the Bosnian | p. 139 |
A Prayer to Go to Paradise with the Donkeys | p. 140 |
The Deer Lay Down Their Bones | p. 142 |
"Life draws a tree..." | p. 144 |
Psalm and Lament | p. 146 |
One Train May Hide Another | p. 148 |
Next, Please | p. 151 |
The Ship of Death | p. 152 |
The Old Man's Monologue with Death | p. 158 |
The Big Mystical Circus | p. 161 |
The Unfaithful Married Woman | p. 163 |
My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow | p. 166 |
The Broken Home | p. 172 |
Vixen | p. 177 |
"I Am Writing to You from a Far-off Country" | p. 178 |
The Cameo | p. 184 |
Encounter | p. 185 |
Elegy for N. N. | p. 186 |
The Eel | p. 189 |
The Fish | p. 190 |
The Absent | p. 192 |
Very Like a Whale | p. 193 |
Ode to the Seagull | p. 195 |
To the Film Industry in Crisis | p. 199 |
The Undertaking in New Jersey | p. 202 |
Anthem for Doomed Youth | p. 203 |
Ein Leben | p. 204 |
The Tunnel | p. 205 |
Winter Night | p. 208 |
Morning Star | p. 210 |
As One Listens to the Rain | p. 211 |
The Tobacco Shop | p. 213 |
Water | p. 221 |
The Little Box | p. 223 |
Canto XLV | p. 224 |
Barbara | p. 226 |
If You Imagine | p. 228 |
Tombs of the Hetaerae | p. 230 |
Miniature | p. 232 |
Dolor | p. 233 |
In the Middle of Life | p. 234 |
Epiphany, 1937 | p. 237 |
April Inventory | p. 239 |
A Postcard from the Volcano | p. 242 |
That Winter | p. 244 |
Rain and the Tyrants | p. 248 |
Question | p. 249 |
The End and the Beginning | p. 250 |
Fern Hill | p. 253 |
Rain | p. 255 |
Track | p. 256 |
An Attempt at Jealousy | p. 257 |
Rose Nocturnal | p. 259 |
The Season of Phantasmal Peace | p. 262 |
Lullaby: Moonlight Lingers | p. 264 |
Advice to a Prophet | p. 266 |
These | p. 268 |
The Journey | p. 270 |
I Have Seen Black Hands | p. 272 |
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz | p. 275 |
That's How We Are | p. 277 |
"A"-11 | p. 278 |
Biographies | p. 281 |
Permissions | p. 305 |
Index | p. 317 |