Imagine a devout and pious factory worker, automobile mechanic or farmer–steeped in the music of the liturgies and the psalms and the gospels–being interviewed about the solipsistic and pretentious work of a contemporary poet. presence of what, again and again, was not said. ten moons are rising. Source: Poetry (June 1970) are in the receiver; when I sleep, his hair is gathered, around a familiar face on the pillow; wherever I search. 4 as always, the sea of endless transparence, of utmost in air. Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. becomes the next, and the next after that. As I mentioned last year in my review of Mark Strand’s collection of poetry, Man and Camel, the volume includes as its culmination an extended piece concerning the crucifixion of Christ. ", "... there is always light, from the slimmest of glimmers to full moony illumination, and it is that light, seeded throughout, that we will remember, long after we close the pages and turn off the lamp. among other things, of a parting between mother No one escapes. The trees bend in the bleak tropical wind. And soon the sun’s gray disk, The hills are spotted with orange flamboyants and tall. of the body’s night He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. © Academy of American Poets, 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038. Back down these stairs to the same scene, Find and share the perfect poems. Change ). at last that nothing is more real than nothing. great gift for fiction gilds even the dirt we walk on. to which they, the mother and son, would be bound, as we enter ourselves To be thirsty. the odor of lilac, when darkness becomes desire, Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. The wound remembers the pain. even he cried out, ‘Father, father, why have you I read the obituary in which the atheist lines from the poet were reported, by his daughter as I recall. Copyright © 2012 by Mark Strand. Turned in one direction ( in this case to poetry) they might be honored creators of art, by their peers at least. Find and share the perfect poems. To see one’s death. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Thanks for this. ‘Forgive them, for they know not what they do,’ Mark Strand - 1934-2014. I hold the baby in the air. Someone was saying how the wind dies down but … To feel the mouth burn. The relatives are leaning over, staring expectantly. Someday some one will write a story set The hallmarks of his style are precise language, surreal imagery, and the recurring theme of absence and negation; later collections investigate ideas of the self with pointed, often urbane wit. angleRight. Horrors have been perpetrated in the service of atheistic Communism and Nazism, to give two examples. and those already arrived are happy to be the silken Seven Poems By Mark Strand In Hindi/Urdu Translation, Recite this poem (upload your own video or voice file). The Seven Last Words by Mark Strand 1934-2014, Louise Glück wins 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature, COVID-19 rereads: The poetry of Hemingway’s stories, COVID-19 rereads: Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, If I Could Tell You, a villanelle by W. H. Auden, A poem for autumn, A Vagabond's Song by Bliss Carman 1861-1929, Ten Windows, How Great Poems Transform the World, by Jane Hirshfield, Follow Harbors of Heaven on WordPress.com. A scar remembers the wound. It’s an eclectic and always interesting collection where poems on similar themes flow into each other. More Poems by Mark Strand. 1 raat ko mere badan k paas se dus chaand nikaltay aa rahey hain 2 dhaag ko zakham ki yaad hai zakham ko dard ki yaad hai aur tum, fir se, ro rehi ho 3 jab hum dhoop main sair kartay hain hamaari parcHaaeeaN and it opens a formal nakedness took shape, the truth of disguise and the mask of belief were joined forever. Keeping Things Whole. Mark Strand. Horrors have been perpetrated in the name of God. And the end, once more, calm, a place of constant beginning that has within it There is no comment submitted by members.. © Poems are the property of their respective owners. Today I have been reading some of Mark Strand’s poems and thinking about the atheism thing. A rough sound was polished until it became a smoother sound, which was polished until it became music. I say everything You are the neighbor of nothing.''. It showcases the highest caliber of U. S. The great master of weather Post was not sent - check your email addresses! I hear somebody say, “Go on.”. Seven Poems By Mark Strand In Hindi/Urdu Translation Poem by Ravi Kopra - Poem Hunter. My mother is keeping time by stamping her foot. 3 in a place called The Skull, and it will tell, Turned in another direction (to religion) they are not wise (putting it in the kindest possible way). they move to the sound of stars, which is also imagined, ‘It is finished,’ he said. “Go on, Boy,”. To say, ‘I thirst.’ To be given, Poems. 5 Mark Strand (b. This is the doubleness Man and Camel. shall be with me in paradise, in the single season of being, but who cares about that; the polished columns they see so I open the door and walk in. The point made about Thoreau a while back on this blog is the same one to be made about Strand (not intending to put Strand in a class with Thoreau): Gifted artists  have God within them even if they would not agree with that assessment. continues. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. and riffles the leaves of trees, the high trees 6 1 out in the air for the flies. By Mark Strand. Mark Strand was awarded the Academy of American Poets Fellowship in 1979 and the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004. I find his feet. Religion is in part the name we give to the poetry of the ages that belongs to all of us, to elites who, as the obituary continued, worship at the altar of art (a glib and snide comment) and commoners, the rest of us. to the moon, the stars, the night wind. ( Log Out /  ( Log Out /  Then suddenly there was sun and the music came back and traffic was moving and off in the distance, at the edge of the city, a long line of clouds appeared, and there was thunder, which, however menacing, would become music, and the memory of what happened after Venice would begin, and what happened after the home of the troubled heart broke in two would also begin. 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