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The babies

Title
The babies / Mark Strand.
Author
Strand, Mark, 1934-2014
Publication
Brooklyn, New York : Pressed Wafer, 2015.

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TextSupervised use JFD 18-5322Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Additional Authors
  • Finck, Liana
  • Pressed Wafer (Firm), publisher.
Description
1 broadside : color illustration; 57 x 16 cm (folded to 21 x 16 cm)
Summary
Broadside poem illustrated by Liana Finck, containing virtually all of Mark Strand's poem.
Genre/Form
  • American poetry – 21st century.
  • Broadside poems – New York (State) – Brooklyn – 2015.
  • Broadsides – New York (State) – Brooklyn – 2015.
  • Zines.
Binding (note)
  • As issued; in prefab case, 28 cm.
Call Number
JFD 18-5322
OCLC
961394485
Author
Strand, Mark, 1934-2014, author.
Title
The babies / Mark Strand.
Publisher
Brooklyn, New York : Pressed Wafer, 2015.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Binding
As issued; in prefab case, 28 cm.
Biography
"Mark Strand's Collected Poems (Knopf) was published in 2014 He died the same year at the age of eighty. "The Babies" appeared in his book Reasons for Moving (Atheneum, 1968). As a student at Yale, Strand had been serious about painting before he became a poet. In his last decade he returned to art and made collages, lyric and abstract, showing a gift for color. Lori Bookstein Fine Art in Chelsea, New York, exhibited these in several one-man shows; the gallery continues to represent Strand's art."--Colophon.
"Liana Finck is a cartoonist and graphic novelist. Her work appears in the New Yorker; A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York (Ecco/HarperCollins) appeared in 2014. She discovered Mark Strand's poetry in her parents' library as a teenager and remains a faithful reader of his work. "The Babies" is her first drawing of one of his poems. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York."--Colophon.
Local Note
Ugly Duckling Presse chapbook and zine collection.
Place of Publication
United States New York Brooklyn.
Added Author
Finck, Liana, illustrator.
Pressed Wafer (Firm), publisher.
Research Call Number
JFD 18-5322
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