Poems by Mark Strand
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The New Poetry Handbook
... 16 If a man writes a poem and praises the poem of a fellow overly, ...
Eating Poetry
... The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep ...
Keeping Things Whole
... Wherever I am I am what is missing ...
The Story Of Our Lives
... It was words that created divisions in the first place, ...
Giving Myself Up
... I give up my smell which is that of a stone traveling through rain ...
Lines For Winter
... tell yourself in that final flowing of cold through your limbs ...
Courtship
... She suddenly bends down to kiss your shoulder and you know ...
A Piece Of The Storm
... To brevity, to the lifting and falling away of attention, swiftly, ...
Answers
... Because it is what I have always done between sunset and sunrise ...
The Remains
... I open the family album and look at myself as a boy ...
The Dreadful Has Already Happened
... when I reached inside for his tiny lungs and shook them ...
So You Say
... the coming of heat, the mind has all the time in the world ...
Coming To This
... Coming to this has its rewards: nothing is promised, nothing is taken away ...
The Room
... the doors to the closets of his unhappiness openand into his room the misfortunes come -- ...
From The Long Sad Party
... noticed. Then someone said something about the planets, about the ...
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