15 very good complete literary periodicals here include three issues issues of Poetry (Chicago) in my tribute to the passing of Pulitzer Prize Winner and former American Poet Laureate, Mark Strand, along with very good copies of the Gettysburg Review, the London Times Literary Supplement (2), the New York Review of Books (5), the Paris Review and others.
They include:
The Yale Review for Summer 1959. Strand pens a new poem, See Too the Morning Come, his "first appearance as a poet in a national magazine." See photo #13. A little chip to the corner of the front wrapper.
The New York Review of Books for 6 January 1966. A very good original 58 year-old number in very good condition. This issue offers an early poem by the 31 year-old Strand, "The Accident," here first printed. See photo #5.
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The New York Review of Books for 6 October 1966. Another hard to find original 58 year-old issue is in very good condition. See photo #4. This number offers a fine new poem by Strand, here first printed, called "Eating Poetry."
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Poetry (Chicago) for June 1970. This bright like new issue offers two poems by Strand, his first contributions to the notable monthly. They are titled "Black Maps" and "Seven Poems." The cover is by Wisconsin artist Dudley Huppler (1917-88). Poetry's "Back Page" featured this June 1970 issue (along with a photo), with commentary by Paul Durica about Huppler's career, while making note of Strand's first appearance, as a landmark in the history of the magazine in its 100th Anniversary issue for June 2012.
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"The Nature of No One." This is a longer (2/3 of a full page) review essay by David Kirby on the "Poetic Personae of Mark Strand" here following the publication of Strand's The Monument and of his The Late Hour. In the London Times Literary Supplement (see photos #2-3), 15 September 1978. Nice complete very good issue of 27-pages.
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The Paris Review (#77) for Winter/Spring 1980. See photo #9. This issue has some little soil to paper wrappers. It offers new fiction by Strand, a story called "The Gift."
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Poetry (Chicago) for December 1981. Like new issue offers Robert B. Shaw's assessment in review of Strand's recently published Selected Poems. "The Selected Poems seems, as few volumes do nowadays, an entirely necessary book, perhaps a classic."
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The Antioch Review for Spring 1984. Strand here contributes a new short story, "Under Water." See photo #12.
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The Western Humanities Review (Utah) for Spring 1988. Hard to find issue features art work by Strand on the cover. Strand served on the editorial board of the quarterly. This number also features a wonderful prose poem by Charles Simic who encounters Strand on the street and Strand immediately engages him by standing on his head and drinking a glass of rare wine. See photo #7.
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The Gettysburg Review for Spring 1991 which features a tribute, simply called "Mark Strand" by the notable Yale literary critic Harold Bloom. This is an enthusiastic statement ("now one of the strongest of Sublime poets") on the works of Strand following the publication of his notable new volume, The Continuous Life.
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The Times Literary Supplement (London) for 17 May 1996. This number (see photo #8) offers a full page oversize essay in review of the English publication (by Carcanet) of Strand's Selected Poems. This by Nicholas Jenkins.
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Poetry (Chicago) for January 2011. These are Strand's last contributions to the monthly, 41 years after his first ones. He here opens the issue with five prose poems, here first printed, including "Futility in Key West," and "Mystery and Solitude in Topeka."
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The New York Review of Books for 12 June 2003. See photos #10 and #11. The able Michael Wood here reviews Strand's The Story of Our Lives, with The Monument and the Late Hour and Looking for Poetry: Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Rafael Alberti, and Songs from the Quechua, here translated by Strand.
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The New York Review of Books for 8 January 2015. This number opens with a 1986 tribute to Strand by poet Joseph Brodsky and another by poet Charles Simic following Strand's passing in November 2014. See photo #6.
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The New York Review of Books for 9 July 2015. This number offers an essay of some note by Dan Chiasson in review of the Collected Poems of Strand.