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. 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.
- ISBN10 1904130151
- ISBN13 9781904130154
- Publish Date 23 May 2005 (first published 8 February 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 April 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The Waywiser Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English