[New-Poetry] Reading Report: Mark Strand

[Anny Ballardini]

As you wrote: the Table of the Periodic Elements_ it makes sense to me. Mark
Strand was first a painter, and then a poet. Colors are chemicals combined
together. I think they represent him quite well. Thank you for sharing this.


On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:35 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> 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)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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