[New-Poetry] Reading Report: Mark Strand

[jforjames at aol.com]

One other odd thing I wanted to mention about the event...

The last major reading I attended was with Charles Wright. Suspended on the wall
behind Wright was a massive elk head. In the hall where Mark Strand read, two large
posters of the Table of the Periodic Elements framed the podium on his left and right.
 I'm not sure what to make of this. One poem that Strand read was "The Great
Poet Returns," (a wry homage to Wallace Stevens), and as the poem says:

Tell me, you people out there, what is poetry anyway?
        Can anyone die without even a little?


--Mark Strand, concluding lines from “The Great Poet Returns,” 
 Blizzard of One (Knopf, 1998)



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From: David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu>
Sent: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 1:27 am
Subject: [New-Poetry] Reading Report: Mark Strand



Strand has an updated selected poems that appeared last year.  A paperback edition is coming out next month.  It replaces the 1980 version by adding work from his past several books.














On Dec 3, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Anny Ballardini wrote:


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



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