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"Startling visions, unexpected truths, an aura of wistfulness, and trills of playful humor waft from every page . . ." --Booklist
Mark Strand, Former Poet Laureate, Pulitzer and MacArthur recipient "startles with his image evoking language" (Rain Taxi) in these vivid kaleidoscopic one line meditations.
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Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 - November 29, 2014) was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and was raised and educated in the United States. He was the author of numerous books of poetry, a book of stories, several volumes of translations, a number of anthologies, and two monographs on contemporary artists. He received many honors and grants, including the MacArthur Fellowship, and in 1990 he was chosen as Poet Laureate of the United States. In 1999 he received a Pulitzer Prize for Blizzard of One.
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Strand, a much honored poet, writes with deceptively offhanded elegance and wit that belie deep and haunting emotions and an acute attunement to the beauty and inexplicableness of life. No matter how spare his style, his work is lush with manifold meanings, a feat he performs to near perfection in this lithe collection, a book of lists, of list-poems. Even the table of contents can stand as a poem as it lists the subjects he uses as jumping-off points for entering the realm of the poetry, such as shadow, throat, hour, hand, island, chair, glass, dog, and sorrow. As Strand improvises on each theme in lean yet lyrical poems that resonate like koans with their odd, lovely, and teasing unions of reason and fancy, the full range of images, emotions, and thoughts associated with each object, act, or concept takes shape like a drawing, one line at the time. Startling visions, unexpected truths, an aura of wistfulness, and trills of playful humor waft from every page, and always the language is exact, musical, and transcendent. Donna Seaman
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Shadow
The shadow of Naples
The shadow of stanzas waiting
The shadow of daylight is absence
The shadow of a mother includes another
The shadow of chaos is order
The shadow of the hawk is the robin
The piano's shadow is a cape
The cape's shadow is a woman
The shadow of one dream is another dream
The shadow within a dream is infinite
The shadow of a boat is an anchor
The shadow of regret is tragedy
The shadow of love is loss
Oh my! The shadow is back and is waiting
The shadow of paint is only paint
The shadow of rain is wetness unto itself
The shadow of morning is lean
Come back, shadow of my youth
Shadow me, and tell me where I've been
Come back, warm shadows of the Sundays of my youth
Even the brightest poem is haunted by shadows
The shadow of the mother, the shadow of the father
Shadows are robes the sun keeps dropping
Come back, lost shadows, syllables of midnight
To plead for a shadow is to plead for mercy
Copyright © 1999 Mark Strand. All rights reserved.
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