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The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter
David Lehman, author of The Last Avant-Garde, and editor of The Best American Poetry series, shared on NPR his three favorite poems for 2011. “The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter” by Mark Strand was one of the three.
Strand’s poem, a prose poem, leverages mystery over logic and, appropriately, is written as a prose poem. Read the poem here.
- POEM: Blaze (Peggy Shumaker)
- POEM: My Mission Statement (Joseph Di Prisco)
- POEM: One’s-Self I Sing (Walt Whitman)
- POEM: Nonnative Invasive (Elizabeth Bradfield)
- POEM: Incidents (Arni Ibsen)
- POEM: At a Supermarket in California (Allen Ginsberg)
- POEM: Pacific Storms (Brenda Hillman)
- POEM: Waiting for Icarus (Muriel Rukeyser)
- POEM: Sleeping with the Dictionary (Harryette Mullen)