A sentiment I share…
I didn’t know Mark Strand. I met him once when I was moonlighting at The King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City. He was a formidable presence – tall, handsome, ramrod straight, modest, and quietly articulate.
The 80 year old former Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize Winner and Professor of English at Columbia University died last Saturday of liposarcoma, a rare soft tissue cancer.
The New Yorker obituary printed this Strand poem in its tribute:
2002
