Forgive me for never having heard of Mark Strand until now, but I've just read these (here I'm tempted to use inverted commas, but I won't) - poems - which mostly start off sounding like a joke, of the 'Man walks into a bar...' type:
A man stands under a tree...
I was riding downtown in a cab...
A banker strutted into the brothel of blind women...
...except not one of them is funny, so they're clearly not meant as jokes. IMO not one of them is a poem, either. I don't know what they are but they leave me cold, sorry. I'm obviously missing something that his fans are getting.
Did I read this correctly? A banker strutted into the brothel of blind women...
WTF?????
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