Mark Strand was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his book BLIZZARD OF ONE. The title poem of his most recent volume, MAN AND CAMEL, appears below and can be heard, read by the poet, in today's audio clip. "Fire," another poem from the collection, is featured on the downloadable broadside below.
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