Lannan Readings & Conversations
Mark Strand
with Michael SilverblattWednesday February 9 2000
Mark Strand was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1934, and was raised and educated in the United States.
Described as a "poet of mood, of integrated fragments, of twilit landscape, and of longing," Mr. Strand has said, "I think the reality of the poem is a very ghostly one. It doesn't try for the kind of concreteness that fiction tries for. It doesn't ask you to imagine a place in detail; it suggests, it suggests, it suggests again."
His nine poetry books include Blizzard of One, which won the Pulitzer Prize; Dark Harbor; The Continuous Life; and Reasons for Moving. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
Michael Silverblatt is the host of the literary talk show Bookworm, which he created in 1989 for KCRW 89.9 FM in Santa Monica. He has participated in numerous Readings & Conversations programs, interviewing Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, and A.S. Byatt, among others. Bookworm airs locally on KSFR 101.1FM every Sunday at 1:30pm.
