Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Great Regulars: In his absorbing new book, Mark Strand

also uses the notion of his own death as a springboard. Like [Jonathan] Swift's lines, but in a distinctly different way, Strand's poem includes laughter and sorrow not as mere opposites, but as one feeling:

2002

from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice

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