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Reasons for Moving was Mark Strand's first book, and on its publication in 1968 Donald Justice called him 'maybe the very best of the new poets.' Darker followed, and Robert Penn Warren said, 'the moment is always exciting when a true poet finds the secret self that is the wellspring of his inspiration.' And Harold Bloom wrote, 'these poems instantly touch a universal anguish as no confessional poems can, for Strand has the fortune of writing naturally and almost simply (though this must he supreme artifice) out of the involuntary near solipsism that always marks a central poetic imagination in America.'

These key books in the career of a recent Poet Laureate of the United States are now reissued in one volume together with a private-press book of aphorisms dating from the same time. An essential book for a full understanding of one of our major poets.

Color woodcut, Night Scene, by Neil Welliver. Courtesy of the artist.

Reasons for Moving Darker and the Sargentville

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      Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
      Publication Date: 1/28/1992 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780679736684, 978-0679736684
      ISBN10: 0679736689

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Reasons for Moving was Mark Strand's first book, and on its publication in 1968 Donald Justice called him 'maybe the very best of the new poets.' Darker followed, and Robert Penn Warren said, 'the moment is always exciting when a true poet finds the secret self that is the wellspring of his inspiration.' And Harold Bloom wrote, 'these poems instantly touch a universal anguish as no confessional poems can, for Strand has the fortune of writing naturally and almost simply (though this must he supreme artifice) out of the involuntary near solipsism that always marks a central poetic imagination in America.'

      These key books in the career of a recent Poet Laureate of the United States are now reissued in one volume together with a private-press book of aphorisms dating from the same time. An essential book for a full understanding of one of our major poets.

      Color woodcut, Night Scene, by Neil Welliver. Courtesy of the artist.

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