{"product_id":"the-continuous-life-isbn-9780679738442","title":"The Continuous Life,","description":"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.Mark Strand was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and was raised and educated in the United States and South America. He is the author of many books of poems, a book of stories, and three volumes of translations, and he was the editor of several anthologies. He received many honors and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize (for \u003ci\u003eBlizzard of One\u003c\/i\u003e), the Bollingen Prize, and the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1990, he was appointed poet laureate of the United States. He died in August 2013.\u003cb\u003eThe Continuous Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat of the neighborhood homes awash\u003cbr\u003eIn a silver light, of children crouched in the bushes,\u003cbr\u003eWatching the grown-ups for signs of surrender,\u003cbr\u003eSigns that the irregular pleasures of moving\u003cbr\u003eFrom day to day, of being adrift on the swell of duty,\u003cbr\u003eHave run their course? Oh parents, confess\u003cbr\u003eTo your little ones the night is a long way off\u003cbr\u003eAnd your taste for the mundane grows; tell them\u003cbr\u003eYour worship of household chores has barely begun;\u003cbr\u003eDescribe the beauty of shovels and rakes, brooms and mops;\u003cbr\u003eSay there will always be cooking and cleaning to do,\u003cbr\u003eThat one thing leads to another, which leads to another; \u003cbr\u003eExplain that you live between two great darks, the first \u003cbr\u003eWith an ending, the second without one, that the luckiest \u003cbr\u003eThing is having been born, that you live in a blur \u003cbr\u003eOf hours and days, months and years, and believe \u003cbr\u003eIt has meaning, despite the occasional fear \u003cbr\u003eYou are slipping away with nothing completed, nothing \u003cbr\u003eTo prove you existed. Tell the children to come inside, \u003cbr\u003eThat your search goes on for something you lost--a name, \u003cbr\u003eA family album that fell from its own small matter \u003cbr\u003eInto another, a piece of the dark that might have been yours, \u003cbr\u003eYou don’t really know. Say that each of you tries \u003cbr\u003eTo keep busy, learning to lean down close and hear \u003cbr\u003eThe careless breathing of earth and feel its available \u003cbr\u003eLanguor come over you, wave after wave, sending \u003cbr\u003eSmall tremors of love through your brief, \u003cbr\u003eUndeniable selves, into your days, and beyond.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302316888293,"sku":"NP9780679738442","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679738442.jpg?v=1767738825","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-continuous-life-isbn-9780679738442","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}