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Honkymagic:  Introduction to "Keeping Things Whole"

Monday 8 March 8:10:00 PST 2010

Mark Strand’s poetry confuses me. It’s often, though not always, a pleasant confusion, but a confusion nonetheless. This might be what that AP prompt from twenty years ago refers to as a “healthy mix of pleasure and disquietude,” though I have a feeling they mean something more along the lines of the fractured chronology of, say, Catch-22, or the fantastic ... [Link]

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Honkymagic:  Mark Strand: "Keeping Things Whole"

Monday 8 March 8:09:00 PST 2010

In a field
I am the absence
Of field.
This is
Always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
And always
The air moves in
To fill the spaces
Where my body’s been.

We all have reasons
For moving.
I move
To keep things whole. [Link]

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