Mark strand is a poet, essayist and art critic. 1934 was born in Prince Edward Island, Canada. He studied at Antioch College with a bachelor's degree in literature, and then studied fine arts at Yale University. 1962 obtained a master's degree in literature from the University of Iowa. He is the author of 65,438+00 books of poetry, including A Man's Blizzard (65,438+0998), Dark Harbor (65,438+0993), Endless Life (65,438+0990) and Selected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize. He also published two collections of essays, several translated works, several papers on contemporary art and three children's books. In addition, he compiled several volumes of poetry and prose. Due to the wide acclaim of The Reason for Moving, strand won many awards for his creation and was elected as the second American Poet Laureate on 1990.

Many poets have influenced strand's poetry, including Wallace Stevenson and Borges. His poems are calm and clear, and there is no lack of depth and penetration into language. Many of his works are surreal. On the one hand, they are committed to imitating dreams, on the other hand, they are keen to introduce everyday pictures. Like a prism placed between fiction and fact, his poems are transparent and complicated.