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Mike Zunino Making Impact as a Freshman
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One reason for Gator baseball's continued success this season has been the play of freshman catcher Mike Zunino from Cape Coral who's been a starter since opening night for him as a Gator. Zunino is currently tied for 3rd on the team with six homeruns -- including one last weekend against Arkansas -- & Zunino admits his transition to college baseball is starting to get smoother.
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Making Systems Changes for Better Diabetes Care
This practical resource is designed to help health care professionals across the country make a difference in the way diabetes is prevented and treated.
Making Systems Changes for Better Diabetes Care is a National Diabetes Education Program website that provides information, models, links, resources and tools to help health care professionals:
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Mad Men Season 7 SPOILERS: Christina Hendricks Teases 'Crazy, Mad' Final Season, Talks Joan And Roger Romance
Christina Hendricks has opened up about "Mad Men's" final season, calling it "crazy" and "mad."
Speaking to The Star, Hendricks – who plays secretary-turned-partner Joan Harris – said of Season 7, "It's crazy, it's mad, it's just what you'd expect it to be. Every time a new script arrives we just fall on it and tear it apart looking for clues as to where our characters are going to wind up.
"We're about to start filming the third episode and, honestly, no one knows where it's going to end."
Hendricks also opened up about her character.
"It's rare, so rare to get a part like Joan," she said. "Someone with so many different sides to them, and to get the chance to live with the story and character for eight years now.
"By this point in the evolution of the show I don't just shoot a scene about Joan getting a cup of tea. It's about who she's getting it for, who she passes on the way to the kitchen, how they look at each other and what it means. I love it!"
She also talked about Joan being made a partner of the advertising firm, and how the title change hasn't changed how the other partners see her.
"That was an exciting and difficult episode to pull off. But it also raised a lot of questions, not just for me but for the other cast members," she said.
"What does Joan being a partner really mean? Is she getting the respect and voting status that the men have? Or did they just slap a title on her and tell her to go take care of the secretaries? The men keep acknowledging how important she is to the firm, but they keep treating her like a second-class citizen."
Hendricks talked about AMC's decision to air half of "Mad Men" season 7 in spring 2014 and half in spring 2015.
"I know it can be a bit frustrating to me as an actor, because I would just like to keep going. But our writers really put their blood and guts into the scripts, and they need the time off to regroup and recuperate," she said.
Hendricks next talked about what characters she'll miss – showing some love for Joan's and Roger Sterling's on-again, off-again romance.
"Joan, of course, I'll miss her. And Roger. How can I not miss him after all we've been through," she said.
"Don Draper? He made a habit out of behaving badly from day one and everyone thought it was so attractive and sexy and wanted to be like him. Now that his life seems to be falling apart, I don't think anyone wants to emulate him anymore."
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Sun-dried French fields cloud farmers' mood
By Sybille de La Hamaide
LUMIGNY, France (Reuters) - When French grain farmer Pascal Seingier pulls a wheat stalk from the cracked soil in his field and points to the browned stem and dried-out roots, his face clouds over.
"It's all dry. We have had almost no rain in weeks and it's now clear I will not have the same harvest as usual," he says. "Usually Mother Nature repairs what it has broken but it won't happen this year."
From the road, fields in the grain belt around Paris look green and healthy, but a closer look leaves no doubt.
Drought is biting crops in France, the European Union's top grain grower, a worry which helped fuel a rally in global wheat prices despite a commodity sell-off sparked by economic doubts.
Seingier, 54, who owns 125 hectares some 55 kilometers east of Paris, checks his rain gauge every morning at 8 o'clock and writes the daily rainfall on a piece of paper.
The instrument barely got wet this year, he shows -- only 25 days out of 140, with just 10 millimeters (ml) in April and May.
"Since mid-January the rainfall has been below normal. April was one of the hottest and driest on record and so far in May I have registered only 3 ml of rain," Seingier said at his farm which dates from 1860. "Usually it's 50-60 (ml) a month."
France is by far the EU's largest wheat grower and exporter, and the Ile-de-France region surrounding Paris, where Seingier lives, is among the country's top 10 wheat providers. Continued...


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Tens of thousands of Russian troops have been placed on alert after a suspected Israeli airstrike destroyed advanced, Russian missiles recently delivered to Syria.
In a July 13 report from the official Russian news agency, ITAR-TASS, The Russian Defense Ministry has announced what is being described as "the most ambitious [check alert] in the history of post-Soviet test readiness." A check alert, according to the Defense Ministry is a mobilization for exercises designed "to test the readiness of units to perform assigned tasks, and assessment of the level of training of personnel, staffing and technical readiness units and formations with arms and military equipment." The alert, according to the ITAR-TASS report, involves more than 80,000 troops, around a thousand tanks and armored personnel carriers, some 130 aircraft and 70 naval vessels.Sponsored Ads
This massive military alert is seen as a response to the disclosure Friday to CNN, by unnamed US officials, that the destruction of the Russian missiles in Syria was a result of Israeli airstrikes.
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Israel fires warning Tamuz missile into Syria as Gaza front escalates
Israel's deteriorating security situation erupted simultaneously on two fronts Sunday, Nov. 11. The IDF fired a Tamuz precision guided missile against a mortar position 4 kilometers inside Syria after a stray mortar hit the IDF Golan defense post at Tel Hazaka. It was the fourth incident of cross-border violence from the Syrian conflict in 10 days and the first time Israel had fired across the Golan border since the 1973 war. The Tamuz was developed by RAFAEL and is operated from specially modified M-113 Hafiz armored personnel carriers.
Israel's military command expects the military confrontation on the Gaza front to escalate. Israel's emergency services have been elevated to maximum C-level preparedness in the South and also further north, in case Hamas expands its rocket offensive to central Israel as well.
Israel fires warning Tamuz missile into Syria as Gaza front escalates
China at odds with U.S. on Iran arms sales
The Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, or CSIS, said that such exports include fighter jets, main battle tanks and naval vessels.
"China is an important arms supplier for Iran," the CSIS report said.
China also is supplying roadside bombs and landmines in addition to anti-ship cruise missiles, air defense systems and armored personnel carriers. While such supplies have dropped in recent years, Washington objected to those sales as well.
Something Big Is Happening in the Streets of Moscow
No one's quite sure what's going on in the streets of Moscow — or what to call it — but it's growing and powerful … and could all end badly
MOSCOW – Tonight is the first night without protests here since some 6,000 young people gathered Monday night to express their frustration with the electoral fraud in Sunday's parliamentary elections and, more broadly, the institution of Putinism. They came out again Tuesday night, where they were met by thousands of drum-beating pro-Kremlin youth activists. And again on Wednesday. Nearly 1,000 people were arrested, and many of them — including anti-corruption blogger Alexey Navalny, a political rising star since he coined the phrase "Party of Crooks and Thieves" to describe Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia — are still in jail. Moscow is filled with tens of thousands of extra Interior Ministry troops and armored personnel carriers, and the city's skies crackle with the sound of helicopter blades.
But what's next? In short: No one knows….
Israel Keeps Eye on Rising Egyptian Threat
"They (the Israel Defense Forces) did not have to build up a capability to counter the military in Egypt," Katz said. "That's no longer the case."
After four wars, Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. But since the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in February, the Muslim Brotherhood is calling for an end to the treaty.
A recent opinion poll showed a majority of Egyptians favor such a move, which means Israel may have to build defensive or even offensive capabilities in the south.
"That means increasing defense budget, adding new fighter jet squadrons, new unmanned aerial vehicles, more tanks, more armored personnel carriers, new divisions," Katz said.
"So it's a complete new change and possible revolution for the military," he said.
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New Israeli technology, making a tank disappear
Eltics Ltd., an Israeli start-up that develops electronic warfare systems, says it has come up with technology that will eventually turn fantasy into reality — a system that can make tanks, armored personnel carriers, helicopter gunships and even naval vessels invisible to night vision systems and heat-seeking missiles.


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I settled to look after Tota for the first march, and to give the elephant gun to Indaba-zimbi.
He threw the elephant gun forward and fired at the centre of the palisade.
I unslung my elephant gun from my shoulders and waited, calling to the men below to come up with all possible speed.
I yelled, setting the example by letting off both barrels of my elephant gun into the thickest part of the company opposite to me.
Then I fired the elephant gun, which was loaded with slugs, right into the thick of them.
One poor fellow had his thigh smashed by a ball from an elephant gun, from which he afterwards died.
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Is the frizz you can see when your hair is still wet/while scrunching always a reaction to a product? Sometimes my hair actually looks frizzier while it's drying then it does after it has dried all the way and even when I've been using the same products.
By the way I am beside myself imagining that this conditioner survey will actually tell me what products work for what types of frizz problems. Is that the idea?!! OOOOOOOH I can't wait.
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Let us know how it shoots...unless you're not planning on shooting it?
I was at my favorite local gun shop Friday, and found that they had been keeping a nice little M1934 Beretta safe and warm, just waiting for someone like me to show up. It's a commercial model, and it's had a fairly cushy existence from the looks of it. Very little bluing wear, clean and clear markings, and very tight all over.
Right side of the slide.
Left side of the slide.
There is a very distinct mark on the tang from making contact with the hammer spur when fired. I also noticed in this light something I'd not noticed when I bought it. Someone has apparently used an improper tool (hammer?) to adjust or remove and replace the rear sight. It's a tad dinged.
Both magazines have apparently been in n' out a lot. The heal type mag release drags on the rear surface of the magazines.
There are small amounts of bluing wear on the squared edges, and from the looks of things, the incorrect tools used more than once. The grip screws are a bit buggered.
All in all I'm very happy with it. It's a good shooter and it's still shiny and pretty; no more wear that I would expect to have on anything within the first year or so.
Let us know how it shoots...unless you're not planning on shooting it?
My old new toy...or new old toy
I think that mark on the tang is pretty typical. They also tend to have scuffing on the top of the barrel, if they've been shot very much. Great little guns, nevertheless. Mine was made in 1941 and still shoots like it was new!
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!!!NO RESERVE!!!is a very nice Moser intaglio plate. The subject is an iris with the stem dropping from the flower and joining slender leaves that circle the perimeter of the dish. The condition is perfect with no flaws what so ever. The burnished gold is a repeated 'V' pattern with a dot between each. The rim pattern is exactly as pictured in Gary Baldwins book, MOSER ARTISTIC GLASS". Plate 136, page 128 show the iris pattern on a decanter and two wine glasses. Take a good look at the top rim of the wine glasses and you will see the same repeated 'V' pattern with dot. You will love seeing this very pretty dish in your cabinet. Winning bidder pays cost of mailing. Please pay by 48 hrs of auction ending. Thank you!!!


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George W. Bush wasn't the first president to occasionally mangle the language -- and he wasn't the last.
President Obama made an amusing slip of the tongue last night while discussing the Middle East during a fundraiser in Austin.
"Internationally, we've gone through a Teutonic shift in the Middle East that could have enormous ramifications for years to come," he said.
Hmmm ... Teutonic ... a reference to the ancient Germans, forerunners of the Germans ... as far as we know, the Germans haven't tried to overrun the Middle East since World War II.
This morning, the White House sent out a correction on what the president meant to say:
"Internationally, we've gone through a **Teutonic [tectonic] shift in the Middle East that could have enormous ramifications for years to come."
Ah, tectonic ... "of or pertaining to building or construction; constructive; architectural."
Hey, it was the end of a long Texas day for Obama.
These things happen -- those of us who have been known to write "Osama" instead of "Obama" can relate.
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The Truth About Sugar
By Rachael Moeller Gorman, "Solving the Sugar Puzzle," September/October 2012
What's good? What's bad? How much sugar is too much? Here's what the latest science says.
"There is no substitute for whole natural foods, a variety of foods, eaten in season. I read that xylitol, which is marketed as a natural sugar, is actually processed using toxic chemicals. "
There is no substitute for whole natural foods, a variety of foods, eaten in season. I read that xylitol, which is marketed as a natural sugar, is actually processed using toxic chemicals.
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06/06/2013 - 5:32pm
The bottom line is, most of the "nutrition news" that's put out there is backed by big corporations whose interest is only in making money and not public health. Your best bet is to eat whole foods and avoid processed foods altogether. The way we eat in this country has a direct relationship to the major killers . . . heart attack, stroke, diabetes and cancer. I recommend you read The China Study for starters.
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09/08/2012 - 1:13pm
agree with the above comment! Less processed food!
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I am very bothered by your comments in this article about all of the changes that we have made in the last three decades and that the studies by Lustig are a huge mistake from a public health perspective. What is a huge mistake is that we keep wasting time writing articles like this to begin with. All of the things you listed are an issue for our society. Sugar, fat, carbs, and the list goes on beyond things you mention, like chemicals and preservitives. The bottom line is that WE EAT TOO MUCH PROCESSED FOOD!!!! There is no way to make healthy processed food!!! People want their food to taste good, bottom line! If the food is processed and you take out the fat you have to put sugar in to make it taste better. If we take out the sugar we have to put chemicals in to make it taste better. The only real answer here is to EAT LESS PROCESSED FOOD! You are doing everyone a disservice by even publishing this article. The average person reading this without any nutrition background is confused and tries to make changes in their diet that cause them an inbalance some other way. Instead of pointing the finger at individual ingredients all the time, why don't you look at the real root of the issue. PEOPLE EAT TOO MUCH PROCESSED FOOD! Until we as a society start eating more whole food from fresh fruits and vegetables, you can write articles all day long, but it isn't going to make any difference. Try talking about something that matters and quit wasting everyones time!
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Confirmation & Beyond
Beth El 10th graders are invited to participate in this year's Confirmation Program at Congregation Beth El. Confirmation is a study program for high school students whose purpose is to encourage young people to learn and think about important life questions in a Jewish setting. The program culminates in a shared Kabbalat Torah ("acceptance of the Torah") ceremony on a Friday evening in May. The ceremony is a public "confirmation" of your engagement with Jewish teaching and the Jewish spiritual tradition. Our 2014/5774 Kabbalat Torah ceremony will take place on Friday, May 9.
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The Beth El confirmation program is organized in conjunction with Midrasha. Rabbi Kahn will be offering a special Beth El confirmation class during the second and third hour of Midrasha first semester (10:45 am – 12:30 pm) and third hour of Midrasha second semester (11:35 am-12:30 pm). The class will look at classic and modern Jewish teaching about "the big Jewish ideas" of God, authority and responsibility, and our relationships and obligations to the Jewish people and humanity.
These sources will in turn help us clarify and "confirm" our own understanding of what it means to be and live as a Jew. We will also engage in an on-going study of classic and modern Jewish sources about contemporary issues, from limits on tattooing to limits on when a nation should go to war. Your suggestions and ideas will inform the class as we move along. One of last year's students said: "Confirmation class was a great way to start Sunday morning. Pastries and Torah became the highlight of my Sunday."
Now you may be asking why should I show up on Sunday mornings to take this class? Well, besides the fact that Rabbi Kahn frequently brings muffins and pastries, it's an opportunity to engage with Jewish ideas, sources, Rabbi Kahn and each other in a challenging and serious way (but no homework). The topics will be chosen largely by the group; last year, we discussed poverty and responsibility, environmentalism, reproductive rights and sexuality, crime and punishment, and more. In addition to the Sunday Midrasha classes, there will occasionally be other gatherings of the Confirmation class (Shabbat dinner, field trips, etc.). A highlight of the last two years — and now a Confirmation tradition — is our annual weekend in Los Angeles.
If you have not yet enrolled for Midrasha this year, please do so now! Students may also enroll only in the Beth El Confirmation class; tuition is $125. Registration — whether for Confirmation only or for the full Midrasha program — is through the Midrasha office. (The $125 is in lieu of regular Midrasha tuition; it is not in addition if your student is enrolling in the full Midrasha program.)
If your family needs financial assistance to enroll in the program please let Rabbi Kahn know. No student will be turned away. Obviously, our out-of-town weekend will involve additional expense; last year, we were able to provide scholarship assistance for everyone who requested it and we are confident that we will be able to do so again this year. (The trip cost will be approximately $300.) Confirmation class students will also be eligible for special scholarships and grants for summer camp, Israel trips and other youth programming throughout the rest of their high school years.
Confirmation/Kabbalat Torah has been an important part of Reform Judaism for over a hundred years and a Beth El tradition since our founding. This promises to be an exciting and fun program that will add a new dimension to your Midrasha and Beth El experience. I hope you will join us! If you or your family has any questions, please call or e-mail Rabbi Kahn at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Abe administration is considering taking demands by South Koreans for compensation over wartime forced labor in Japan to the International Court of Justice.
A source said Friday that such a move would be one option if South Korea's Supreme Court upholds lower court rulings sanctioning such compensation.
Even if Japan takes the cases to the world court, no judicial process would start without South Korea's consent.
The administration apparently wants to stress to the international community that the issue of wartime compensation was settled under the 1965 treaty on basic relations between Japan and South Korea.
In a television program taped Friday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the administration's basic position is that the treaty fully resolved the matter.
He urged companies involved in such cases to delay paying compensation if they lose in court.
On July 10, the Seoul High Court ordered Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. to pay compensation of 1 million won (about ¥90,700) each to four South Koreans subjected to wartime forced labor.
On July 30, the Busan High Court issued a ruling ordering Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to pay 80 million won (¥7.25 million) each to five separate South Korean plaintiffs.


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It's contest time again. This time around we are giving away two Nina Gordon prize packs. Each prize pack consists of one limited edition Nina Gordon American Rag wifebeater, one limited edition Nina Gordon American Rag t-shirt, and one copy of Nina's latest CD "Bleeding Heart Graffiti."
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Mark Strand was recognized as one of the premier American poets of his generation as well as an accomplished editor, translator, and prose writer. The hallmarks of his style are precise language, surreal imagery, and the recurring theme of absence and negation; later collections investigate ideas of the self with pointed, often urbane wit. Named the U.S. Poet Laureate in 1990, Strand's career spanned five decades, and he won numerous accolades from critics and a loyal following among readers. In 1999 he was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection Blizzard of One.
Born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, Strand grew up in various cities across the United States and in Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. Strand originally expressed interest in painting and hoped to become an artist. He earned a BA from Antioch College in 1957 and a BFA from Yale University in 1959, where he studied with the painter Josef Albers. His interest in painting waned while at Yale, and he then decided to become a poet instead. Following his graduation, he went to Italy on a Fulbright Scholarship and studied 19th-century Italian poetry. "I was never much good with language as a child," Strand admitted during an interview with Bill Thomas for the Los Angeles Times Magazine. "Believe me, the idea that I would someday become a poet would have come as a complete shock to everyone in my family." Strand earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1962 and began teaching at various colleges and universities, including Yale, Princeton, and Harvard. He spent a year in Brazil in 1965 as a Fulbright lecturer. Strand admitted there were some benefits to being a poet during the turbulent 1960s. "Groupies were a big part of the scene," he told Thomas. "Poets were underground pop stars, and when we made the campus circuit, girls would flock around. It wasn't bad. I rather liked the uncertainties of my life then."
Strand's first book, Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964) introduced his distinctive approach to poetry. The volume is characterized by a pervasive sense of anxiety and restless foreboding. Discussing the title poem with the radio program, Weekend America, Strand said the poem "speaks to a certain anxiety I experienced back in the early '60s. I was afraid the United States would go to war with Russia or the USSR. I think it's a poem surrounded by a great deal of silence." In the first stanza of the frequently anthologized poem "Keeping Things Whole," Strand sets the tone and presents the themes which continue to dominate his later work: "In a field / I am the absence / of field. / This is / always the case. / Wherever I am / I am what is missing." Just before his death in 2014, Strand asserted that he wrote this poem in 20 seconds during a card game.
The speakers in Strand's early poetry are characterized by an intense concern with self and identity. David Kirby remarked in Mark Strand and the Poet's Place in Contemporary Culture: "Many poems in Strand's first book show an uneasy preoccupation with self, and the vehicle used to express that preoccupation is often a dream state in which the speaker is divided between two worlds and can locate himself comfortably in neither." The concern with identity is woven through Strand's later work, as well. "The basic themes are treated in the poems with a growing unease that the reader feels more intensely than before—as his skill increases, so does the poet's power to disturb," Kirby explained.
Strand's early collections of poetry, including Reasons for Moving (1968), made his reputation as a dark, brooding poet haunted by death, but Strand himself does not find them "especially dark," he told Thomas. "I find them evenly lit," he continued. Critics, however, discerned a shift with Strand's third book. Harold Bloom, reviewing Darker (1970) found that "the irreality of Borges, though still near, is receding in Darker, as Strand opens himself more to his own vision." "The New Poetry Handbook," included in that book, illuminates Strand's slight shift in perspective. While many of the poems that follow it express a concern with the apparent meaninglessness of life, "The New Poetry Handbook" offers a solution: poetry. Strand seriously considers the place of poetry in the universe, concluding that when "a man finishes a poem / he shall bathe in the blank wake of his passion / and be kissed by white paper." Kirby viewed the poem as an answer to the problem of self. But while Strand's focus grew to include an affirmation of the positive, he remained "a poet of mood, of integrated fragments, of twilit landscape, and of longing," wrote Henri Cole in Poetry. His collections The Story of our Lives (1973) and The Late Hour (1978) also "were dark, occupying the Rilkean space between beauty and terror. His ominous, foreboding early poems carry the anxiety of what cannot be communicated because it cannot be known, only anticipated," wrote Dave Lucas in the Virginia Quarterly Review, though they also include more obviously autobiographical poems like "Elegy for my Father." In 1980's Selected Poems, Strand relies on an "ethereal, cumulative effect" to express the idea that "the two fixed points of a man's life are the self and God; both are darknesses, one leading to another," Cole continued. In the New York Review of Books, Irvin Ehrenpreis, however, was critical of Strand's solipsistic emphasis on the self: "For all his mastery of rhythm and music, Strand does not open the lyric to the world but makes it a self-sustaining enterprise."
Strand spent the decade after the publication of Selected Poems not writing poetry. In a profile by Jonathan Aaron, Strand admitted that "I gave up [writing poems] that year. I didn't like what I was writing, I didn't believe in my autobiographical poems." He turned to other forms of writing instead, including a foray into children's literature with The Planet of Lost Things (1982). As with his poetry, Strand focused on questions of loss, using the story to address the common childhood worry about where things go when they are lost. Strand's other books for children include The Night Book (1985) and Rembrandt Takes a Walk (1986). A frequent contributor of short stories to periodicals, Strand published a collection of prose narratives in 1985. The resulting volume, Mr. and Mrs. Baby, addressed Strand's recurrent concern with the superficiality of life. Alan Cheuse of the Los Angeles Times Book Review described the book as "a mixture of irony and affection." The collection mixes the fantastic with the mundane; describing the stories as "odd, surrealistic sketches of alienation and rootlessness," New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani found them "so slight, so tentative, that they evaporate into the air." Ellen Lesser of the Village Voice wrote: "By far the greatest pleasures of Mr. and Mrs. Baby are not to be found in its mysteries, comic vision, or even its hapless picture of the contemporary male, but rather in the writing. On practically every page, one can be dazzled by Strand's language."
Strand has also published books of art criticism, including The Art of the Real (1983) and William Bailey (1987). His 1994 volume Hopper was a highly expressive elucidation of the technique and "narrative" meaning of the American realist painter Edward Hopper's works. "Of the many pieces of writing stimulated by Hopper," observed John Updike in The New York Review of Books, "none is more coolly and eerily attentive (more Hopperesque, we could say) than Mark Strand's brilliant small book Hopper, showing how we are moved and disquieted by formal elements in the paintings. Strand describes Hopper's human subjects, for example, as 'characters whose parts have deserted them and now, trapped in the space of their waiting, must keep themselves company with no clear place to go, no future.'"
Strand published The Continuous Life, his first book of poems in a decade, in 1990. In the New York Times Book Review, Alfred Corn commented that the book "doesn't strike me so much as a capstone of Mr. Strand's career as one more turning in his development." Corn pointed to changes in meter, diction and point of view. "This is a poetry written, as it were, in the shadow of high mountains, and touched with their grandeur," he concluded. Strand's appointment as U.S. Poet Laureate the same year brought the book even more attention. Strand's next books received much critical acclaim. Dark Harbor (1993) is a single long poem divided into 55 diverse sections. Reviewers emphasized the poem's motifs of anticipation and tension lacking resolution, as well as the exotic and rarified beauty of Strand's often surrealistic language, though Judith Hall, in the Antioch Review, found that the austerity of the "sequence is eased by tone—elegiac and self-mocking; part Cheever, part Brancusi, with "the indefiniteness" that Poe said was essential to music." In 1999 Strand was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Blizzard of One. The collection returns to the same concerns that have preoccupied Strand throughout his career as a poet. "The poems in Mark Strand's latest collection are missing their subjects" wrote Sarah Manguso in the Iowa Review, pointing out the presence of familiar Strand themes of loss, dispersion and absence. For many critics Blizzard of One was an affirmation of Strand's continued appeal. A Publishers Weekly reviewer concluded that it was somehow "scandalous" that in his "gorgeous, unabashed nostalgia or erotic melancholy" there remained a tremendous allure and that Strand continued to be "one of our most deeply enjoyable poets." In The New York Times, Deborah Garrison named Strand among the "luminaries" of contemporary poets, calling Blizzard of One a "masterly new collection" in which "even the single snowflake that gives the volume its title ... is a kind of Platonic essence, linked to a continuum of snowflakes out there in the weather and inside, in the reader's consciousness." Garrison also found that "in his serious verses there are glimmers of an appealing new lightness; it's as though his gradual adaptation to his own stringency has freed him up."
When Strand published a collection of 15 short prose works as Weather of Words (2000), he was commended for his insight into the work of other poets. The essays ranged from commentary on poets, analysis of individual poems, and a discussion of poetic forms. The book was also valued for its relevance to Strand's own poetry. Ian Tromp, writing in the Times Literary Supplement, compared the collection to Blizzard of One and found the poems "poised and subtle, imbued with wisdom," while the essays and prose were considered "playful and witty." Strand also coedited the anthology The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) with Eavan Boland.
Strand's collection Man and Camel (2006) contains more playful, witty moments than previous books, though, as Lucas pointed out in his VQR review, its "tension, between what is present and what cannot be touched, continues to be the most consistent theme in Strand's work." New Selected Poems (2007) draws on Strand's work from the previous two decades and is full of "buffoons whom the poet nevertheless loves," wrote Dan Chiasson in the New Yorker, adding "they represent his new empathy for that old absurdity the self." His last book, Collected Poems (2014), was a longlist nominee for the National Book Award.
In his later years, Strand stopped writing poetry and began to work again in art, preferring to make collages with paper he made by hand. His work was exhibited at Lori Bookstein Fine Art in Chelsea.
Mark Strand's honors include the Bollingen Prize, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, a Rockefeller Foundation award, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States and as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He taught at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, and Columbia University. He died in late 2014 at the age of 80.
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- Sleeping with One Eye Open, Stone Wall Press, 1964.
- Reasons for Moving: Poems, Atheneum, 1968.
- Darker: Poems, Atheneum, 1970.
- The Story of Our Lives, Atheneum, 1973.
- The Sargeantville Notebook, Burning Deck, 1974.
- Elegy for My Father, Windhover, 1978.
- The Late Hour, Atheneum, 1978.
- Selected Poems, Atheneum, 1980.
- The Continuous Life, Knopf (New York), 1990.
- The Monument, Ecco Press, 1991.
- Reasons for Moving, Darker, and the Sargeantville Notebook, Knopf, 1992.
- Dark Harbor: A Poem, Knopf, 1993.
- Blizzard of One: Poems, Knopf, 1998.
- 89 Clouds (single poem), monotypes by Wendy Mark and introduction by Thomas Hoving, ACA Galleries (New York), 1999.
- Man and Camel, Knopf, 2005.
- New Selected Poems, Knopf, 2007.
- Almost Invisible, Knopf, 2013.
- Collected Poems, Knopf, 2014.
- The Planet of Lost Things, illustrated by William Pene du Bois, C. N. Potter, 1982.
- The Night Book, illustrated by Pene du Bois, C. N. Potter, 1983.
- Rembrandt Takes a Walk, illustrated by Red Grooms, C. N. Potter, 1986.
- (Editor) The Contemporary American Poets, New American Library, 1968.
- (Editor) New Poetry of Mexico, Dutton, 1970.
- (Editor and translator) 18 Poems from the Quechua, Halty Ferguson, 1971.
- (Editor and translator) Rafael Alberti, The Owl's Insomnia, Atheneum, 1973.
- (Editor with Charles Simic) Another Republic: Seventeen European and South American Writers, Ecco, 1976.
- (Translator) Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Souvenir of the Ancient World, Antaeus Editions, 1976.
- The Monument (prose), Ecco, 1978.
- (Contributor) Claims for Poetry, edited by Donald Hall, University of Michigan Press, 1982.
- (Editor) The Art of the Real (art criticism), C. N. Potter, 1983.
- Mr. and Mrs. Baby and Other Stories (short stories), Knopf, 1985.
- (Editor with Thomas Colchie; translator with Elizabeth Bishop, Colchie, and Gregory Rabassa) Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Traveling in the Family, Random House, 1987.
- William Bailey (art criticism), Abrams, 1987.
- (Editor) The Best American Poetry, 1991, Macmillan, 1991.
- (Contributor) Within This Garden: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Columbia College Chicago/Aperture Foundation, 1993.
- (Editor) Golden Ecco Anthology, Ecco Press, 1994.
- Hopper (art criticism), Ecco Press, 1994.
- (Editor with Eavan Boland) The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Norton (New York), 2000.
- The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention, Knopf, 2000.
- (Translator) Looking for Poetry: Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Rafael Alberti, with Songs from the Quechua, Knopf, 2002.
- (Editor) 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century, Norton (New York), 2005.
Further Readings
- Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale, Volume 6, 1976, Volume 18, 1981, Volume 41, 1987, Volume 71, 1992.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, Gale, 1980.
- Howard, Richard, Alone with America: Essays on The Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950, Atheneum, 1969, pp. 507-16.
- Kirby, David, Mark Strand and the Poet's Place in Contemporary Culture, University of Missouri Press, 1990.
- Strand, Mark, Hopper, Ecco Press, 1994.
- Booklist, May 15, 1998, Donna Seaman, review of Blizzard of One: Poems, p. 1590; February 1, 2000, Donna Seaman, review of The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention, p. 1005.
- Chicago Tribune, March 24, 1985.
- Contemporary Literature, winter, 1980, pp. 136-54.
- Kirkus Reviews, June 1, 1998, review of Blizzard of One: Poems.
- Library Journal, June 1, 1998, Fred Muratori, review of Blizzard of One: Poems, p. 113; June 1, 2000, Fred Muratori, review of The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, p. 134.
- Los Angeles Times Book Review, June 2, 1985, p. 1; May 18, 1986, p. 13; May 9, 1993, p. 11; March 13, 1994.
- Los Angeles Times Magazine, January 13, 1991, p. 14.
- New Criterion, December, 1998, William Logan, "Sins & Sensibility," p. 69.
- New Republic, December 17, 1990, pp. 36-8; March 8, 1993, p. 34.
- New Yorker, December 17, 1990, p. 122.
- New York Review of Books, October 8, 1981, pp. 45-47; August 10, 1995, p. 19.
- New York Times, March 13, 1985, Michiko Kakutani, review of Mr. and Mrs. Baby; September 13, 1998, Deborah Garrison, "The Universe Stares Back."
- New York Times Book Review, November 9, 1986, p. 54; March 24, 1991, p. 26; September 15, 1991, pp. 1, 36-7; April 18, 1993, p. 13.
- Ohio Review, winter, 1972, pp. 54-71.
- Poetry, April, 1991, pp. 54-7; August, 1995, p. 292; December 1999, Bruce F. Murphy, review of Blizzard of One: Poems, p. 153.
- Publishers Weekly, November 29, 1993, p. 47; April 27, 1998, review of Blizzard of One: Poems, p. 62; February 7, 2000, review of The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention, p. 72; April 17, 2000, "April Anthologizing," p. 74.
- Southern Review, winter, 1972, pp. 133-41.
- Times Literary Supplement, September 29, 2000, Ian Tromp, review of The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention, p. 32.
- Tribune Books (Chicago), December 23, 1990, p. 4; August 1, 1993, p. 5.
- Village Voice, April 30, 1985, Ellen Lesser, review of Mr. and Mrs. Baby, p. 47.
- Washington Post Book World, November 7, 1982, p. 17; March 3, 1991, p. 6.
- Western American Literature, summer, 1991, pp. 178-179.
- Yale Review, July, 1993, pp. 134-57.
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Mark Strand was recognized as one of the premier American poets of his generation as well as an accomplished editor, translator, and prose writer. The hallmarks of his style are precise language, surreal imagery, and the recurring theme of absence and negation; later collections investigate ideas of the self with pointed, often urbane wit. Named the U.S. Poet Laureate in 1990, Strand's career spanned five decades, and he won numerous accolades from critics and a loyal following among readers. In 1999 he was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection Blizzard of One.
Born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, Strand grew up in various cities across the United States and in Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. Strand originally expressed interest in painting and hoped to become an artist. He earned a BA from Antioch College in 1957 and a BFA from Yale University in 1959, where he studied with...


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