1978. Introduced by Gregory Orr.
"Does the way a poet reads matter? Yes. Listen to Mark Strand...," says Library Journal of this recording.
The poet's incantatory style has a powerful effect on the listener. As Orr observes in his introduction, Strand's poetry is marked by a striking "clarity and succinctness of language" and by the "seeming ease with which he fuses the metaphysical and the imaginative."
Length: 54 min.
Track List
1. Introduction by Gregory Orr
2. From a Litany
3. Poor North
4. The House in French Village
5. Shooting Whales
6. Where are the Waters of Childhood
Elegy for My Father
7. 1. The Empty Body
8. 2. Answers
9. 3. Your Dying
10. 4. Your Shadow
11. 5. Mourning
12. 6. The New Year
13. For Jessica, My Daughter
14. Lines for Winter
15. Seven Days
16. The Late Hour
17. From the Long Sad Party
18. Leopardi
19. Night Piece (after Dickens)
20. Night Piece (after Carlos Drummond de Andrade)
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