num_pages: 63
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.
language: English
title: The Continuous Life
titlecomplete: The Continuous Life
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 240
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
publisher: Knopf