Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Great Regulars: Like Emily Dickinson, who wrote in

the common meter of Christian hymns, Strand's poems echo the conventions of faith in order to question faith's foundation, to "open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover/what one suspected, that the only word in it/is nothing."

from B.T. Shaw: The Oregonian: Mark Strand's latest book explores language's limitations

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