b. 1934d. 2014
Mark Strand
Mark Strand served as Poet Laureate from 1990 to 1991 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. His poems have been set by John Musto in The Book of Uncommon Prayer and by Daron Aric Hagen in his song cycle Letting Go.
Photo: Mark Strand, taken by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Audio
“Some Last Words” (from “The Book of Uncommon Prayer”)
Awet Andemicael (soprano), Jazimina MacNeil (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Ng (tenor), Neil Aronoff (bass-baritone) & David Trippet (piano)4:21
About
“Strand, born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, received a BA from Antioch College, a BFA from Yale and an MA from the University of Iowa. He is the author of 10 books of poems, including Blizzard of One, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. He has received many honors, including a MacArthur fellowship and three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Strand also has published a collection of stories, Mr. and Mrs. Baby, many translations and several anthologies. He currently teaches in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.”
–Library of Congress Poets Laureate page
Related Information
Poetry Foundation
poetryfoundation.org/poets/mark-strandPoets.org
poets.org/poetsorg/poet/mark-strandLibrary of Congress
loc.gov/item/n79090257/mark-strandModern American Poetry
modernamericanpoetry.org/poet/mark-strand
Songs
Some Last Words2008 · The Book of Uncommon PrayerJohn MustoMark StrandSongs of Sadness1994Ned RoremMark StrandThe Book of Uncommon Prayer2008John MustoW. H. Auden, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Tess Gallagher, Archibald MacLeish, Katherine Mosby, Kenneth Patchen, Mark StrandThe Coming of Light1982Steve HeitzegMark StrandThe Dirty Hand1985Steve HeitzegMark StrandThe Next Time, op. 732001Lowell LiebermannMark Strand
Sheet Music