Mark Strand, a revelatory poet of love and death
One of the many clichés about poetry is that it is an art with just two subjects: love and death. Mark Strand, who died on Saturday at 80, duly addressed love and death in his poems, but in radically lyrical, revelatory ways. He was an unconventional poet of love, due to his natural aversion to …
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