{"product_id":"9780804170857","title":"Collected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the 2014 National Book Award \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGathered here is a half century’s magnificent work by the former poet laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner whose haunting and exemplary style has influenced an entire generation of American poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with the limited-edition volume \u003ci\u003eSleeping with One Eye Open\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1964, Mark Strand was hailed as a poet of piercing originality and elegance, and in the ensuing decades he has not swerved from his vision of how a poem should be shaped and what it should deliver. As he entered the middle period of his career, with volumes such as\u003ci\u003e The Continuous Life\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), Strand was already well-known for his ability to capture the subtle music of consciousness, and for creating painterly physical landscapes that could answer to the inner self: “And here the dark infinitive to feel, \/ Which would endure and have the earth be still \/ And the star-strewn night pour down the mountains \/ Into the hissing fields and silent towns.” In his later work, from \u003ci\u003eBlizzard of One \u003c\/i\u003e(1998) which won the Pulitzer Prize, through the sly, provocative riddles of his recent \u003ci\u003eAlmost Invisible\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), Strand has delighted in reminding us that there is no poet quite like him for a dose of dark wit that turns out to be deep wisdom and self-deprecation. He has given voice to our collective imagination with a grandeur and comic honesty worthy of his great Knopf forebear Wallace Stevens. With this volume, we celebrate his canonical work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030837477616,"sku":"9780804170857","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780804170857_p0.jpg?v=1763730049","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780804170857","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}