100 great poems of the twentieth century

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Title:

100 great poems of the twentieth century

Author:

Strand, Mark, 1934-

General Note:

Includes index.

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

320 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject Term:

Poetry -- 20th century -- Translations into English.

English poetry -- 20th century.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Author(s):

Strand, Mark, 1934-

Publisher:

W.W. Norton,

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Publication Date:

2005

ISBN:

9780393058949

Publication Information:

New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.

Call Number:

821 ONE

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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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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.

Anna AkhmatovaRafael AlbertiYehuda AmichaiA. R. AmmonsCarlos Drummond De AndradeMario de AndradeAlan AnsenGuillaume ApollinaireJohn AshberyW. H. AudenIngeborg BachmannJohn BerrymanElizabeth BishopLouise BoganJorge Luis BorgesC. P. CavafyPaul CelanBlaise CendrarsAime CesaireInger ChristensenAmy ClampittHart CraneRobert DesnosH. D.Alan DuganRobert DuncanT. S. EliotOdysseus ElytisRobert FrostGloria FuertesAllen GinsbergThom GunnThomas HardyGwen HarwoodRobert HaydenAnthony HechtZbigniew HerbertNazim HikmetMax JacobFrancis JammesRobinson JeffersRoberto JuarrozDonald JusticeKenneth KochPhilip LarkinD. H. LawrenceEnrique LihnJorge De LimaFederico Garcia LorcaRobert LowellJames MerrillW. S. MerwinHenri MichauxEdna St. Vincent MillayCzeslaw MiloszCzeslaw MiloszEugenio MontaleMarianne MooreEdwin MuirOgden NashPablo NerudaFrank O'HaraGeorge OppenWilfred OwenDan PagisNicanor ParraBoris PasternakCesare PaveseOctavio PazFernando Pessoa and Alvaro de CamposFrancis PongeVasko PopaEzra PoundJacques Pr&'evertRaymond QueneauRainer Maria RilkeYannos RitsosTheodore RoethkeTadeusz RozewiczGeorge SeferisW. D. SnodgrassWallace StevensRuth StoneJules SupervielleMay SwensonWislawa SzymborskaDylan ThomasEdward ThomasTomas TranstromerMarina TsvetaevaXavier VillaurrutiaDerek WalcottRobert Penn WarrenRichard WilburWilliam Carlos WilliamsJames WrightRichard WrightWilliam Butler YeatsAndrea ZanzottoLouis Zukofsky

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

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