Books
Former U.S. poet laureate Mark Strand died Saturday, the New York Times reported.
Nov. 29, 2014
Obituaries
Poet Mark Strand, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate widely praised for his concentrated, elegiac verse, died Saturday in Brooklyn at the home of his daughter, Jessica Strand.
One of the many clichés about poetry is that it is an art with just two subjects: love and death.
Nov. 30, 2014
In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.
Nov. 18, 1990
Entertainment & Arts
HOPPER by Mark Strand. (Ecco: $21; 53 pp.)
March 13, 1994
Man and Camel Poems Mark Strand Alfred A. Knopf: 56 pp., $24
Sept. 24, 2006
THE NIGHT BOOK by Mark Strand, pictures by William Pene du Bois (Clarkson N.
May 18, 1986
The last 30 years have been good ones for American poetry.
May 9, 1993
Science & Medicine
Research marks a leap forward for DNA-based computers
June 3, 2011
ALL OF A sudden, Mark Strand, America’s latest official poet-in-chief, is sounding very Washington.
Jan. 13, 1991