Blizzard of One
Pulitzer Prize Winner
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · February 8, 2000
Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience.
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- Who it’s for
- These poems pair sensuous particulars with abstraction, finding wit and celebration amid time’s losses.
- Themes
- Leavetaking, Self and the passage of time, Sorrow and celebration
- Genres
- American Poetry, Poetry About Death
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Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with "the weather of leavetaking," but they are also unexpectedly funny. The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration.
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This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Blizzard of One is an extraordinary book--the summation of the work of a lifetime by one of our very few true masters of the art of poetry.
Wit at the Edge
These poems pair sensuous particulars with abstraction, finding wit and celebration amid time’s losses.
Come here for
- A voice that moves easily from the commonplace to the sublime
- Poems where sorrow and celebration share the page
Expect
- Leavetaking with a streak of unexpected humor
- Stoic reflections on time and the erasure of self
Where it sits
| American Poetry | 92% |
|---|---|
| Poetry About Death | 80% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Poetry
- Poetry About Death
- Nature Poetry
- Authors
- Mark Strand
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- February 8, 2000
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Leavetaking · Self and the passage of time · Sorrow and celebration
- Reading lane
- American Poetry