Mark Strand

An account dedicated to honor and share the work of a Pulitzer Prize winning Poet.

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3/ fashions, / If they come, come late and are / seen / As forms of oppression, sources / of sorrow.

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2/ heavy hedges of snow / surround each house, / Where the wind screams at the / moon’s blank face, / Where the people are plain, and /

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1/ I am writing from a place you / have never been, / Where the trains don’t run, and planes / Don’t land, a place to the west, / Where

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Poets Mark Strand and Charles Wright Read From Their Latest Work. https://t.co/HFaQtOZzle

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"For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better."

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Another favorite from Mark's "Almost Invisible".

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"The Minister of Culture Gets His Wish"

The Minister of Culture goes home after a grueling day a...

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"The future is always beginning now."

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"Mark Strand" by John Dubrow

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Tonight I walked, / lost in my own meditation, / and was afraid, / not of the labyrinth / that I hav...

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Now in the middle of my life all things are white. I walk under the trees, the frayed leaves, the wide net of noon, and the day is white.

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Cross with myself for not discovering this wonderful poet, @M_StrandPoetry until recently.Surreal! Literally! http://t.co/skstqGjiCO

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One of my favorite stanzas taken from "Coming To This".

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Everyone who has sold himself wants to buy himself back.

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THE MARRIAGE "The wind comes from opposite poles, traveling slowly. She turns in the deep air. He walks in the clouds."

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What is your favorite Mark Strand poem?

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"Trees can sway or be still. Day or night can be what they wish. What we desire, more than a season ...

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To stare at nothing is to learn by heart What all of us will be swept into, and baring oneself To th...

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I won the Pulitzer Prize for the book of poetry this poem appears in. Do you know which book that might be? :-)

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I listen to the wind press hard against the house. I cannot sleep. I cannot stay awake. The shutters bang. The end of my life begins.