[New-Poetry] Reading Report: Mark Strand

[Anny Ballardini]

Mark Strand is a poet I would like to meet. I looked on the net some time
ago for a book that gathered all his poems but I did not find any. I really
like his poetry, and the description James gave of him makes a lot of sense,
that is what I would expect from him.
Thank you, Anny

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:18 AM, karen <oedipa at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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