Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with "the weather of leavetaking," but they are also unexpectedly funny. The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration. This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit.
- ISBN10 0679738444
- ISBN13 9780679738442
- Publish Date 30 May 1992 (first published 26 September 1990)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 13 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Alfred A. Knopf
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 80
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780679738442