Man and Camel
by Strand, Mark
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0307262960
- ISBN 13
- 9780307262967
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Southampton, New York, United States
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Synopsis
Mark Strand was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and was raised and educated in the United States. He is the author of ten earlier books of poems. He is also the author of a book of stories, Mr. and Mrs. Baby , three volumes of translations (of works by Rafael Alberti and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and of anonymous Quechua lyrics), a number of anthologies (most recently 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century ), and monographs on the contemporary artists William Bailey and Edward Hopper. He has received many honors and grants for his poems, including a MacArthur Fellowship for 1987–92, and in 1990 he was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States. In 1993 he was awarded the Bollingen Prize, and in 1999 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Blizzard of One . He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
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- Bookseller
- Southampton Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 99864
- Title
- Man and Camel
- Author
- Strand, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0307262960
- ISBN 13
- 9780307262967
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
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