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Mark Strand, Keeping Things Whole

by Doug LeMoine on 3 May 2009

In a field / I am the absence / of field. / This is / always the case. / Wherever I am / I am what is missing  —  Mark Strand, “Keeping Things Whole”

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Last night I read the New Yorker profile of Matthew and Michael Dickman, poets from Portland, Oregon who happen to be identical twins. (Here’s the abstract). In their work, they have very different voices, but there’s a strange sort of twin telepathy that seems to exist within it. They also edit each other’s work, providing [...]

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