The Story of Our Lives with The Monument and The Late Hour

by STRAND, MARK

• ISBN13: 9780375709753
• ISBN10: 0375709754
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-26
• Publisher: Knopf

Summary

Mark Strand is the author of nine books of poems, includingBlizzard of One, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize. He was the Poet Laureate of the United States in 1990, and currently teaches at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He lives in Chicago.

Author Biography

This book brings together for the first time three out-of-print works written in the 1970's by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet—-an essential for long-time and first-time readers alike.<br><br>It opens with the haunting "Elegy for My Father" <i>from The Story of Our Lives</i> (1973)—-a powerful evocation of the emptiness, abandonment, and questioning that the dead leave to the living—-and moves on to such poems as "Inside the Story," which illuminates the "insides" of love—-the unspoken conversations between lovers, the arbitrary rules with which we guide our relationships.<br><br>The witty prose pieces from <i>The Monument</i> (1978) act as a reflective pause between the two poetry collections, commenting upon the immortality of poetry and the harmoni

Table of Contents

THE STORY OF OUR LIVES
Elegy for My Father	5	(46)
The Room
The Room	15	(4)
She	19	(2)
In Celebration	21	(1)
To Begin	22	(5)
The Story of Our Lives
The Story of Our Lives	27	(7)
Inside the Story	34	(6)
The Untelling	40	(11)
THE MONUMENT	51	(110)
THE LATE HOUR
Another Place
The Coming of Light	113	(1)
Another Place	114	(1)
Lines for Winter	115	(1)
My Son	116	(2)
White	118	(2)
For Jessica, My Daughter	120	(5)
From the Long Sad Party
From the Long Sad Party	125	(1)
The Late Hour	126	(1)
Seven Days	127	(2)
About a Man	129	(1)
The Story	130	(1)
For Her	131	(1)
So You Say	132	(1)
Poems of Air	133	(1)
An Old Man Awake in His Own Death	134	(1)
No Particular Day	135	(2)
Exiles	137	(6)
Poor North
Poor North	143	(1)
Where Are the Waters of Childhood?	144	(2)
Pot Roast	146	(2)
The House in French Village	148	(3)
The Garden	151	(1)
Snowfall	152	(3)
Night Pieces
Night Pieces I	155	(1)
II	156	(5)
Acknowledgments	161