Weather of Words: Poetic Inventions
by Mark Strand
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- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375709703
- ISBN 13
- 9780375709708
- Seller
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Mark Strand was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and was raised and educated in the United States. He has written nine books of poems, which have brought him many honors and grants, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Blizzard of One . He was chosen as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1990. He is also the author of a book of stories, Mr. and Mrs. Baby , several volumes of translations (works by Raphael Alberti and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, among others), the editor of a number of anthologies, and the author of two monographs on contemporary artists (William Bailey and Edward Hopper). He teaches in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- A Cappella Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 278951
- Title
- Weather of Words: Poetic Inventions
- Author
- Mark Strand
- Format/Binding
- Paper Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0375709703
- ISBN 13
- 9780375709708
- Publisher
- Knopf Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny
- Date Published
- November 2001
- Pages
- 160
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