Mark Strand è stato un poeta e saggista americano la cui opera è caratterizzata da un'introspezione malinconica e dall'esplorazione dell'esistenza quotidiana. Nella sua poesia, ha catturato magistralmente sentimenti di alienazione, transitorietà e la tranquilla assurdità della vita. Il suo stile è spesso descritto come secco, diretto e inaspettatamente arguto, pur toccando temi profondamente umani. L'eredità letteraria di Strand risiede nella sua capacità di trasformare momenti apparentemente ordinari in meditazioni poetiche sulla natura della nostra realtà.
This deluxe edition features the only collection of short fiction by a former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. As part of the Ecco Art of the Story series, it showcases the author's unique storytelling style and literary prowess, offering readers a blend of poetic language and compelling narratives.
From Pulitzer Prize–winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems. Sometimes appearing as pure prose, sometimes as impure poetry, but always with Strand’s clarity and simplicity of style, they are like riddles, their answers vanishing just as they appear within reach. Fable, domestic satire, meditation, joke, and fantasy all come together in what is arguably the liveliest, most entertaining book that Strand has yet written.
»Strand beweist wieder einmal, daß er in einem Maße, das jeden Kunstkritiker nervös machen muß, die nicht immer verwandten Gaben des Schauens und des Sehens besitzt. Er blickt tiefer in Hoppers Bilder als jeder andere zuvor … Dies ist das gescheiteste Buch, das je über Hopper geschrieben wurde.« Soweit Adam Gopnik, selbst namhafter Kunstkritiker. Tatsächlich sind Mark Strands Texte zu 30 Gemälden von Edward Hopper nicht nur brillante Essays, sondern auch eine Schule des Sehens. Die scheinbar so vertrauten Hopper-Ikonen – wie Nighthawks, House by the Railroad oder Sun in an Empty Room – erscheinen in Strands luziden Bildbetrachtungen, die nicht interpretieren, vielmehr zum genauen Hinsehen animieren wollen, in einem neuen Licht, das alle Hopper-Klischees und liebgewordenen Sehgewohnheiten vergessen läßt. Mark Strand (geb. 1934), Professor an der University of Chicago und Pulitzer-Preisträger, hat neun Gedichtbände sowie zahlreiche Essays, Erzählungen, Übersetzungen und Monographien über zeitgenössische Künstler veröffentlicht.
A selection of 75 poems by new and established poets, culled from the pages of nearly three dozen magazines published in the past year.
Color photographs show still lifes made up of flowers, fruit, feathers, shells, antique photographs and cards to create a mysterious atmosphere