Mark Strand was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
His collections of poems include: Dark Harbor (1993),
The Continuous Life (1990), Selected Poems (1980),
The Late Hour (1978), The Story of our Lives (1973),
The Sargentville Notebook (1973), Darker (1970),
Reasons For Moving (1968), and Sleeping With One Eye
Open (1964). He has also published a book of prose, entitled
The Monument (1978). His books on artists include William
Bailey (1987) and Hopper (1994). His translations include
two volumes of the poems of Carlos Drummond de Andrade. He has
also published three books for children. He has been the recipient
of Fellowships from the Ingram Merrill, Rockefeller, and Guggenheim
Foundations and from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has
been awarded the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1979),
a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award (1987),
the Bollingen Prize (1993), and has served as Poet Laureate of
the United States (1990). He is currently the Elliott Coleman
Professor of Poetry in the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins
University.
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