Mark Strand, National Poet Laureate, talks about his work

In this edition of HoCoPoLitSo's The Writing Life, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Henry Taylor hosts National Poet Laureate Mark Strand. Their conversation spans Strand's work from his first book, Sleeping with One Eye Open, published in 1964, to his sixth book, The Continuous Life, published in 1990. The two writers talk about matters of form, rhyme, slant rhymes and alliteration that characterize a poem like "Sleeping with One Eye Open". They touch on the "spooky" quality of an early poem like "Keeping Things Whole," and discuss the difference between these early poems and Strand's free verse poems and the return to more traditional structure in his newer work. Mr. Strand reads five of his poems: "Sleeping with One Eye Open"; "Keeping Things Whole"; and "Shooting Whales" from his Selected Poems; "A.M." and "Always" from The Continuous Life. For more information about the live and taped programs produced by HoCoPoLitSo (the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society), visit www.hocopolitso.org

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