Dark Harbor: A Poem

by Mark Strand

Book Overview

Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Strand gives us a poem in forty-five sections that--despite its wide range and shifting mood and tone--is all of a piece. Here Strand speaks candidly to the reader, conversing, offering urban wit and surrealist digressions that draw on our innermost sensations and the outermost reaches of our reality: Is what exists a souvenir of the time Of the great nought and deep night without stars The time before the universe began?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067975279X
• ISBN13: 9780679752790
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

great poem, great poet

Mark strand, one of the better living poets in America delivers with a great, longer work set around growing older. It is accessable and interesting, which is about all you can ask for out of a modern volume of poetry. More then a few of these poems will rattle around in your head, long after you have put the book down.