Editing Mark Strand

{{short description|Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name = Mark Strand
| image = Markstrand012.JPG
| caption = Strand at Georgetown University, 2012
| birth_date = {{birth date|1934|4|11|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Summerside, Prince Edward Island|Summerside]], [[Prince Edward Island]], Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|11|29|1934|4|11}}
| death_place = [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.
| occupation = {{flatlist|
* Poet
* translator
* novelist
* essayist}}
| nationality = American, Canadian
| education = [[Antioch College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Fine Arts|BFA]])<br>[[University of Iowa]] ([[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]])
}}
'''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|Comparative Literature]] at [[Columbia University]] from 2005 until his death in 2014.

== Biography ==
Strand was born in 1934 at [[Summerside, Prince Edward Island]], Canada,<ref name=poetsorg /> to Robert Joseph Strand and Sonia Apter. Raised in a secular [[Jews|Jewish]] family,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kevane|first1=Bridgette|title=What Is Missing|url=http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/70954/what-is-missing|work=[[Tablet Magazine]]|access-date=3 December 2014|date=29 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Italie|first1=Hillel|title=Pulitzer laureate Mark Strand dies at 80|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/pulitzer-laureate-mark-strand-dies-at-80/|work=[[The Times of Israel]]|access-date=3 December 2014|date=30 November 2014}}</ref> 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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/2014/11/30/pulitzer-prize-winning-poet-mark-strand-dies/19716085/|title=Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Strand dies at 80|agency=Associated Press|date=November 30, 2014|work=The Poughkeepsie Journal|access-date=July 6, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Shawn|first1=Wallace|title=Mark Strand, The Art of Poetry No. 77|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1070/the-art-of-poetry-no-77-mark-strand|magazine=[[The Paris Review]]|access-date=3 December 2014|date=Fall 1998|volume=Fall 1998 |issue=148 }}</ref> and in 1957 earned his [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from [[Antioch College]] in Ohio.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|last1=Grimes|first1=William|title=Mark Strand, 80, Dies; Pulitzer-Winning Poet Laureate|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/nyregion/mark-strand-80-dies-pulitzer-winning-poet-laureate.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=29 November 2014|access-date=29 November 2014}}</ref> He then studied painting under [[Josef Albers]] at [[Yale University]], where he earned a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts|B.F.A]] in 1959.<ref name=nyt/> On a [[U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission]] scholarship, Strand studied 19th-century Italian poetry in [[Florence]] in 1960–61.<ref name=nyt/> He attended the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]] at the [[University of Iowa]] the following year and earned a [[Master of Arts]] in 1962.<ref name=nyt/> In 1965 he spent a year in Brazil as a Fulbright Lecturer.<ref name=mspf>{{cite web|title=Mark Strand|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/mark-strand|publisher=[[Poetry Foundation]]|access-date=3 December 2014}}</ref>

In 1981, Strand was elected a member of [[The American Academy of Arts and Letters]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Deceased Members |url=http://www.artsandletters.org/academicians2_deceased.php |publisher=[[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] |access-date=3 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726004624/http://www.artsandletters.org/academicians2_deceased.php |archive-date=July 26, 2011 }}</ref> He served as [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress]] during the 1990–91 term.<ref>{{cite web | title=Poet Laureate Timeline: 1991-2000 | url=https://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate-1991-2000.html | publisher=[[Library of Congress]] | year=2008 | access-date=1 January 2009}}</ref> In 1998, 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.<ref name=nyt/>

Strand received numerous awards, including a [[MacArthur Fellowship]] in 1987 and the 1999 [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]], for ''Blizzard of One''.<ref name=nyt/>

Strand died of [[liposarcoma]] on November 29, 2014, in Brooklyn, New York.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Rivera|first1=Joshua|title=Pulitzer-Winning Poet Laureate Mark Strand Dead at 80|url=https://time.com/3610776/poet-laureate-mark-strand-obit/|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=3 December 2014|date=30 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Mark Strand, former US poet laureate, dies aged 80|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/30/mark-strand-poet-laureate-us-dies-aged-80|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=3 December 2014|date=30 November 2014}}</ref>

==Poetry==
Many of Strand's poems are [[nostalgia|nostalgic]] in tone, evoking the bays, fields, boats, and pines of his Prince Edward Island childhood{{Citation needed|reason=unclear if this represents a claim in the Perkins citation or original research|date=June 2024}}. 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]].<ref name= perkins>{{cite book|last1=Perkins|first1=George|last2=Perkins|first2=Barbara|title=Contemporary American Literature|date=1988|publisher=McGraw Hill|location=New York|isbn=9780075549543|page=953}}</ref> 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."<ref name= perkins/>

==Academic career==
Strand's academic career took him to various colleges and universities, including:<ref name=mspf/>

===Teaching positions===

* [[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===
* [[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 ==
Strand was awarded the following:<ref name=poetsorg />
* [[1960 in poetry|1960]]&ndash;[[1961 in poetry|1961]]: [[Fulbright Fellowship]]
* [[1979 in poetry|1979]]: [[Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets]]
* [[1987 in poetry|1987]]: [[MacArthur Fellowship]]
* [[1990 in poetry|1990]]&ndash;[[1991 in poetry|1991]]: [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress]]
* [[1992 in poetry|1992]]: [[Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry]]
* [[1993 in poetry|1993]]: [[Bollingen Prize]]
* [[1999 in poetry|1999]]: [[Pulitzer Prize]], for ''Blizzard of One''
* [[2004 in poetry|2004]]: [[Wallace Stevens Award]]
* [[2009 in poetry|2009]]: Gold Medal in Poetry, from the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artsandletters.org/press_releases/2009members.php|title=The American Academy of Arts and Letters announces newly elected members and award winners|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Letters|date=April 14, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617062819/http://www.artsandletters.org/press_releases/2009members.php|archive-date=June 17, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
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=== Poetry ===
Source:<ref name=mspf/>
* [[1964 in poetry|1964]]: ''Sleeping with One Eye Open'', Stone Wall Press
* [[1968 in poetry|1968]]: ''Reasons for Moving: Poems'', Atheneum
* [[1970 in poetry|1970]]: ''Darker: Poems'', including "The New Poetry Handbook", Atheneum
* [[1973 in poetry|1973]]: ''The Story of Our Lives'', Atheneum {{ISBN|9780689105760}}
* [[1973 in poetry|1973]]: ''The Sargentville Notebook, Burning Deck''
* [[1975 in poetry|1975]]: ''From Two Notebooks'', [[No Mountains Poetry Project]]
* [[1976 in poetry|1976]]: ''My Son'', [[No Mountains Poetry Project]]
* [[1978 in poetry|1978]]: ''Elegy for My Father'', Windhover
* [[1978 in poetry|1978]]: ''The Late Hour'', Atheneum
* [[1980 in poetry|1980]]: ''Selected Poems'', including "Keeping Things Whole", Atheneum
* [[1990 in poetry|1990]]: ''The Continuous Life'', Knopf {{ISBN|9780679738442}}
* [[1990 in poetry|1990]]: ''New Poems''
* [[1991 in poetry|1991]]: ''The Monument'', Ecco Press (see also ''The Monument'', 1978, prose)
* [[1993 in poetry|1993]]: ''Dark Harbor: A Poem'', long poem divided into 55 sections, Knopf
* [[1998 in poetry|1998]]: ''Blizzard of One: Poems'', Knopf winner of the [[1999 in poetry|1999]] [[Pulitzer Prize]] for poetry
* [[1999 in poetry|1999]]: ''Chicken, Shadow, Moon & More'', with illustrations by the author, Turtle Point Press
* [[1999 in poetry|1999]]: "89 Clouds" a single poem, monotypes by [[Wendy Mark]] and introduction by [[Thomas Hoving]], ACA Galleries (New York)
* [[2006 in poetry|2006]]: [https://books.google.com/books?id=9ufGW1edM0EC&q=Mark+Strand ''Man and Camel''], Knopf<ref name=poetsorg/> {{ISBN|9780375711268}}
* [[2007 in poetry|2007]]: ''New Selected Poems''<ref name=uippw>{{cite web|title=Mark Strand, UI Graduate 62MA (Former UI Faculty)|url=http://www.iowalum.com/pulitzerPrize/strandTest.cfm|publisher=The University of Iowa Alumni Association|access-date=3 December 2014}}</ref>
* [[2012 in poetry|2012]]: [https://books.google.com/books?id=Rkw1YJ6SViQC&q=Mark+Strand ''Almost Invisible''], Random House, {{ISBN|9780307957313}}
*[[2014 in poetry|2014]]: ''Collected Poems'', Knopf {{ISBN|9780385352512}}

=== Prose ===
Source:<ref name=mspf/>
* [[1978 in literature|1978]]: ''The Monument'', Ecco (see also ''The Monument'', 1991, poetry) {{ISBN|9780880012744}}
* [[1982 in poetry|1982]]: Contributor: ''Claims for Poetry'', edited by [[Donald Hall]], University of Michigan Press
* [[1982 in literature|1982]]: ''The Planet of Lost Things'', for children
* [[1983 in literature|1983]]: ''The Art of the Real'', art criticism, C. N. Potter
* [[1985 in literature|1985]]: ''The Night Book'', for children
* [[1985 in literature|1985]]: ''Mr. and Mrs. Baby and Other Stories'', short stories, Knopf {{ISBN|9780880013864}}
* [[1986 in literature|1986]]: ''Rembrandt Takes a Walk'', for children
* [[1987 in literature|1987]]: ''[[William H. Bailey (artist)|William Bailey]]'', art criticism, Abrams
* [[1993 in literature|1993]]: Contributor: ''Within This Garden: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen'', Columbia College Chicago/Aperture Foundation
* [[1994 in literature|1994]]: [https://books.google.com/books?id=sa1ogh1wuv8C&q=Mark+Strand ''Hopper''], art criticism, Ecco Press {{ISBN|9780307957108}}
* [[2000 in poetry|2000]]: ''The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention'', Knopf
* [[2000 in poetry|2000]]: With Eavan Boland, ''The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms'', Norton (New York)

=== Poetry translations ===
* [[1971 in poetry|1971]]: ''18 Poems from the Quechua,'' Halty Ferguson<ref name=poetsorg/>
* [[1973 in poetry|1973]]: ''The Owl's Insomnia'', poems by [[Rafael Alberti]], Atheneum<ref name=poetsorg/>
* [[1976 in poetry|1976]]: ''Souvenir of the Ancient World'', poems by [[Carlos Drummond de Andrade]], Antaeus Editions<ref name=uippw/>
* [[2002 in poetry|2002]]: ''Looking for Poetry: Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Rafael Alberti, with Songs from the Quechua''<ref name=uippw/>
* [[1993 in poetry|1993]]: Contributor: "Canto IV", ''Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contemporary Poets'' edited by Daniel Halpern, Harper Perennial
* [[1986 in poetry|1986]], according to one source, or [[1987 in poetry|1987]], according to another source:<ref name=mspf/> ''Traveling in the Family'', poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, with [[Thomas Colchie]]; translator with [[Elizabeth Bishop]], Colchie, and [[Gregory Rabassa]])  Random House<ref name=mspf/>

===Editor===
* [[1968 in poetry|1968]]: ''The Contemporary American Poets'', New American Library<ref name=poetsorg/>
* [[1970 in poetry|1970]]: ''New Poetry of Mexico'', Dutton<ref name=poetsorg/>
* [[1976 in poetry|1976]]: ''Another Republic: Seventeen European and South American Writers'', with [[Charles Simic]], Ecco<ref name=poetsorg>{{cite web|title=Mark Strand|url=http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/mark-strand|publisher=[[Academy of American Poets]]|access-date=3 December 2014}}</ref>
* [[1991 in poetry|1991]]: ''[[The Best American Poetry 1991]]'', Macmillan<ref name=mspf/>
* [[1994 in poetry|1994]]: ''Golden Ecco Anthology'', Ecco Press<ref name=mspf/>
* [[1994 in poetry|1994]]: ''The Golden Ecco Anthology''<ref name=poetsorg/>
* [[2005 in poetry|2005]]: ''100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century'', W. W. Norton<ref name=poetsorg/>
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== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Wikiquote}}
*{{cite interview |interviewer=Wallace Shawn |title=Mark Strand, The Art of Poetry No. 77 |url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1070/the-art-of-poetry-no-77-mark-strand |date=Fall 1998 |periodical=[[The Paris Review]] |issue=148}}

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