[New-Poetry] Reading Report: Mark Strand

[karen]

Hi Finnegan,

I'm guessing you live in my neck of the woods.  I'm 2 miles from Smith up
here in Florence, Ma..  Wish I'd known he was reading, I would've mad an
effort to be there.  Smith has a great reading series every year I've found.

Karen

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:55 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> I heard Mark Strand read at Smith College last night. He was
> in great form. (Older than one would think, and he made a few
> jokes about his age.) Unless he's a good liar, he was dipping into
> older poems at whim or because someone on the Smith falcuty asked
> him to read a paticular poem. He said about one poem, I haven't
> ever this one in a public reading. And yet, without a prepared
> presentation of planned sequence of poems, each one he read he
> read without a hitch.
>  He didn't 'over-introduce' his poems. He'd give a bit orf chronological
> detail (early or late poem, a brief narrative glimpse of the times), and
> then he just launch into it.
>
> I think one thing I noticed in the reading, is how he strings together
> phrases with one or two linking (repeated) words. Not like anaphora,
> just that successive phrase picks up or echoes one or two of the words in
> the prior phrase. Wheh he doesn't inflect the words, he doesn't press on
> the sounds, yet he has a dulcet, lilting style of delivery. I heard and I
> believed.
> Finnegan
>
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