Reasons for Moving, Darker & the Sargentville Not: Poems

by Mark Strand

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679736689
• ISBN13: 9780679736684
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Profound Poems of the Self

DARKER and REASONS FOR MOVING each contain many poems which go very deep into the Self. I respectfully submit that, although the poems as a body did not speak to the other reviewer Skag, very, very few of them are "mediocre."