“Why did I believe you would come out of nowhere? Why with all that the world offers would you come only because I was here?” - #MarkStrand (died: 29 November 2014)
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A brief telling of my long strange trip to return to a creative life.
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“I am the absence” turns into an ethic of care. Move lightly and the world remembers its shape.
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Most of our experience is that of being a witness. We see and hear and smell other things. I think being alive is responding."
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#MARKSTRAND ON THE PRIMACY OF BEARING WITNESS
"We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.
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"The Coming Of Light", Mark Strand
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I love the last couplet, it seems so hopeful, venerating the now but also looking to what comes with tomorrow.
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We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.
- #MarkStrand
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"Man and Camel", Mark Strand
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You can hear Mark read his poem here:
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Analysis here:
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"In Celebration", Mark Strand
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I read this as becoming tired and stagnant and waiting to die. The house darkens, and friends leave.
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Ooteoote-serie Poetry in motion, 508: Mark Strand, The poem of the Spanish poet
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“Why did I believe you would come out of nowhere? Why with all that the world offers would you come only because I was here?” - #MarkStrand (born: 11 April 1934)
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"A DREAM OF TRAVEL"
by Mark Strand
(Almost Invisible)
🎨 Maya Vericad Gavilá,
"A Dream of Travel"
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Poems: poetryfoundation.org/poets/mark-str…]
✒️ #MarkStrand, American poet, editor, and translator, was #BOTD 11 April 1934. #Poetry #Literature
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OLD MAN LEAVES PARTY
By #MarkStrand
It was clear when I left the party
That though I was over eighty I still had
A beautiful body. The moon shone down as it will
On moments of deep introspection. The wind held its breath.
And look, somebody left a mirror leaning against a tree.
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"In art, we talk about negative space, which is the part of the canvas not covered with images...It is always important, and sometimes more important than the images. This is about negative space in the world."
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“Why did I believe you would come out of nowhere? Why with all that the world offers would you come only because I was here?” - #MarkStrand (died: 29 November 2014)
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Mark Strand died on this day 2014
"And after I go as I must,
And come back through the hourglass, will I have proved
That I live against time, that the silk of the songs
I sang is not lost?"
Mark Strand,
from "XL"
(Dark Harbor)
#MarkStrand
(1934-2014)
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“Why did I believe you would come out of nowhere? Why with all that the world offers would you come only because I was here?” - #MarkStrand (born: 11 April 1934)
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