MARK STRAND was born on April 14, 1934, in the village of Summerside on Prince Edward Island in Canada. He was educated at Antioch College in Ohio and then went on to Yale where he first studied painting under Josef Albers before deciding to study writing. By the time he graduated he had already won two highly acclaimed awards, the Cook and Bergin prizes, for his collection of poetry. In 1960 he went to the University of Florence in Italy with a Fulbright scholarship.
His collections of poems include
New Selected Poems (2007),
Man and Camel (2006),
Blizzard of One (1998), (
Dark Harbor (1993),
The Continuous Life (1990),
Selected Poems (1980),
The Late Hour (1978),
The Story of our Lives (1973),
The Sargentville Notebook (1973),
Darker (1970),
Reasons For Moving (1968), and
Sleeping With One Eye Open (1964). He has also published a book of prose, entitled The Monument (1978). His books on artists include
William Bailey (1987) and
Hopper (1994). His translations include two volumes of the poems of Carlos Drummond de Andrade. He has also published three books for children.
Mark Strand has taught in over a dozen prestigious colleges and universities and earned numerous honors and awards for his poetry and fiction. He has been the recipient of Fellowships from the Ingram Merrill, Rockefeller, and Guggenheim Foundations and from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also been awarded Fellowships from the Fulbright Program (1960) and the Academy of American Poets (1979), a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award (1987), the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry (1992), the Bollingen Prize (1993), the Pulitzer Prize (1999), the Wallace Stevens Award (2004), and has served as Poet Laureate of the United States (1990-1991).
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