KWLS AUDIO ARCHIVES, Two readings by Mark Strand

                                                 READINGS FROM KWLS AUDIO ARCHIVES

This recording combines two readings given by Strand at the 2010 Key West Literary Seminar. In the first, from Friday January 8, Strand reads a selection of poems spanning his career, including the early works "Sleeping with One Eye Open," "The Mailman," and "The Tunnel." Later works include "I Had Been a Polar Explorer," "Elevator," "Man and Camel,""Some Last Words," and two passages from the 1993 book-length poem "Dark Harbor" ("If dawn breaks the heart..." and "It is true, as someone has said..."). The first reading concludes with recent poems including "Fire," "Old Man Leaves Party," and "Black Sea." In the second reading, from Sunday January 10 (beginning at 20:35), Strand reads "Keeping Things Whole," two passages from "Five Dogs," "Two Horses," "Black Fly," "The Disquieting Muses," "Mirror," and "A Piece of the Storm." Strand's remarks in between poems provide context and explain references to cultural figures including the writers Franz Kafka and Wallace Stevens, and the painter Giorgio De Chirico.