I see you, Mark Strand: On “Space”

In this year of writing questions I’ve been looking back, the better to (hopefully) move forward. I’ve reread early loves with new eyes; I’ve cracked open shoeboxes of old scribblings that a past me thought worth keeping; I’ve hopscotched through a dozen texts from old workshops. There were more such books lurking on my shelves than I realized – not just instructional books and famous authors’ noodlings on craft, but several anthologies from some continuing ed workshops I took in the late ‘90...