42 Years of Consistency: New Selected Poems by Mark Strand, By DONALD BROWN

Strand’s poems have always been inflected by a sense of words as symbolic more than descriptive. He’s about as far from being a nature poet, who yet describes a natural world, as could be.
                                                                                                                         D. Brown

I empty myself of the names of others. I empty my pockets.
I empty my shoes and leave them beside the road.
At night I turn back the clocks;
I open the family album and look at myself as a boy.

42 Years of Consistency: New Selected Poems ,M. Strand, by Donald Brown