[New-Poetry] Reading Report: Mark Strand

[Anny Ballardini]

And I also wanted to add that there is a sort of mathematical perfection in
beauty, even if asymmetrical, and I think poetry tries to seize the
asymmetry of it by trying to reach it with words instead of using numbers.
I know I am drawing water to Bob's mill, but what can I say...

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Anny Ballardini
<anny.ballardini at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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