Now in rich color, thirty of American painter Edward Hopper’s masterpieces with critiques from acclaimed poet Mark Strand. Strand deftly illuminates the work of the frequently misunderstood American painter, whose enigmatic paintings—of gas stations, storefronts, cafeterias, and hotel rooms—number among the most powerful of our time.In brief but wonderfully compelling comments accompanying each painting, the elegant expressiveness of Strand’s language is put to the service of Hoppe...

From Pulitzer Prize–winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems. Sometimes appearing as pure prose, sometimes as impure poetry, but always with Strand’s clarity and simplicity of style, they are like riddles, their answers vanishing just as they appear within reach. Fable, domestic satire, meditation, joke, and fantasy all come together in what is arguably the liveliest, most entertaining book that Strand has yet written.

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book AwardGathered here is a half century’s magnificent work by the former poet laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner whose haunting and exemplary style has influenced an entire generation of American poets.Beginning with the limited-edition volume Sleeping with One Eye Open, published in 1964, Mark Strand was hailed as a poet of piercing originality and elegance, and in the ensuing decades he has not swerved from ...

La gran antología de escritos en prosa del poeta Mark Strand, ganador del premio Pulitzer en 1999. Auténticas clases magistrales escritas con un lenguaje preciso y concreto, que reflejan las principales preocupaciones del autor. La naturaleza de la poesía y su historia, las dificultades de la traducción, los misterios de la fotografía, la amistad, vistos por uno de los escritores más exquisitos de nuestra época.

Wild turkeys cast a spell on those who love to hunt them, and this book celebrates these magnificent birds as well as any work of turkey hunting literature. Here’s a short sample: “I caught the movement of his tailfeathers going up and splaying out and he stepped from between two spruce trees on the opposite hillside and stood there on the short green grass in strut with his neck craned out at a funny angle, like a slow-motion image of what their head does when they gobble and he was brigh...

He didn’t just shake up ice fishing. He transformed the sport so completely that fundamental change of this magnitude will never happen again. His name is Dave Genz, and he drove the modern ice fishing revolution. For the first time, hear the whole story, through his eyes, in a new book that traces the timeline 60 years into the past… all the way forward to today. The story itself is compelling. But there’s something else in here. As you read, you’ll pick up all the elements, all the refin...

True stories from Brendon Burchard, F. Murray Abraham, and other high-profile contributors on the turning points that changed their lives.Can one moment, one brief encounter, change the course of the rest of your life? If so, how will you recognize that moment? Will you let it pass you by? Will you let it defeat you? Or will you allow that moment, that experience, to help shape who you are and who you might become?Moments of Being reveals true stor...

Final Edition is a one-issue-only political magazine written by people who are aesthetes and literary writers and edited by Wallace Shawn, who seriously believes that part of our national problem is that the people who run the country have a crude and minimal imaginative life and are too little acquainted with the quartets of Beethoven.The issue consists of five pieces:"Before the Election—Fragments from a Diary 2004" by Wallace Shawn The diarist broods on the analogy between...

Best of “The Strand Magazine”: 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction“The Strand Magazine was always a giant voice in our corner of the literary world—and it still is today. This collection proves why—these unearthed gems and exciting new pieces shouldn’t be missed.” —Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher seriesThis star-studded anniversary collection features over t...

Alien abductions are real, leaving me stranded on the planet Blaedonia where blue barbarians live. (This is not an Ice Planet Abduction :)I was the fourth female awakened aboard the Drurian spacecraft that specialized in kidnapping females. Their mission? To sell us to other galaxies.Human female Numbers One and Two didn't make it, but Niki—also known as Number Three—made it through the experimentation of language implantation. I was lucky and she transferr...

But be warned, fellow traveler… this is not just a book—it is a journey into the very life of Death.Listen to the tales of the afterlife: Halloween, vampires, Heaven, Hell, Armageddon, zombies, death-bringing angels, ghosts, cults, ritual killings, nightmares from Vietnam... The lists goes on and on.Ever wondered if it was possible to cheat death? To kill Death?Did you know Death was a girl?Or that it’s possible to escape and even become death...

Predatory eyes flicker in darkness, a legion of abominations seeking human destruction.Slashing claws and gnashing teeth, hungry for flesh, eager to kill.Clutch onto hope and pray for dawn. Creatures rule the night.In Darkness, Delight is an original anthology series revealing the many faces of modern horror— shocking and quiet, pulp and literary, cold-hearted and heart-felt, weird tales of spiraling madnes...