The Iowa Review David Hamilton BACK A Note on Mark Strand Mark Strand's poems and translations have influenced many a younger writer. One result was that he wound up at the Writers' Workshop a few years later and now has a small volume out of his own.
Strand has a remarkable way of coming through to writers in the making.
Here, then, a clue. A cheeky thing to say, and not wholly accurate. And Strand, like the rest of us of a certain age, most likely took a Great Books course or two. We would probably substitute Dante and Shakespeare for Chaucer's last two. One thing they have in common, setting Ovid a little aside, is that they arrive at the universal through the extremely local and particular.