{"product_id":"the-story-of-our-livesisbn-9780375709754","title":"The Story of Our Lives","description":"Mark Strand is the author of nine books of poems, including \u003ci\u003eBlizzard of One\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize. He was the Poet Laureate of the United States in 1990, and currently teaches at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He lives in Chicago.This book brings together for the first time three out-of-print works written in the 1970's by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet—-an essential for long-time and first-time readers alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt opens with the haunting \"Elegy for My Father\" \u003ci\u003efrom The Story of Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e (1973)—-a powerful evocation of the emptiness, abandonment, and questioning that the dead leave to the living—-and moves on to such poems as \"Inside the Story,\" which illuminates the \"insides\" of love—-the unspoken conversations between lovers, the arbitrary rules with which we guide our relationships.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe witty prose pieces from \u003ci\u003eThe Monument\u003c\/i\u003e (1978) act as a reflective pause between the two poetry collections, commenting upon the immortality of poetry and the harmonious connection between the writer and his future readers. And, flowing seamlessly from these meditations, \u003ci\u003eThe Late Hour\u003c\/i\u003e (1978) exemplifies the timeless power of lyric poetry, bringing us eloquent, lilting poems about the irretrievable past, the redemptive power of love, and the mysterious cycles of human existence: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Again the late hour, the moon and stars,\u003cbr\u003ethe wounds of night that heal without sound, \u003cbr\u003eagain the luminous wind of morning that comes before the sun...\"","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304952516837,"sku":"NP9780375709754","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375709753_66b455eb-3a64-4b8c-b921-17e6aec7654c.jpg?v=1730758939","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-story-of-our-livesisbn-9780375709754","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}