Author: Mark Strand

Cited by

• Tobias Wolff (2)
  • IN: Old School (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why did you lie to me? I always thought I told the truth. Why did you lie to me? Because the truth lies like nothing else and I love the truth.
    FROM: Elegy for my Father, (1973), Poem, US
• Justin Cronin (2)
  • IN: The Twelve (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn’t. There was a house, and then no house. There were trees, but none remain. When no one remembers, what is there? You, whose moments are gone, who drift like smoke in the afterlife, tell me something, tell me anything.
    FROM: In the Afterlife, (2011), Poem, US/Canada
• Stuart Nadler (1)
  • IN: The Inseparables (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They marry and have a child. The wind carries them off in different directions.
    FROM: The Marriage, (1980), Poem, US/Canada
• Jason Ockert (1)
  • IN: Neighbors of Nothing (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is winter and the new year. Nobody knows you. Away from the stars, from the rain of light, You lie under the weather of stones. There is no thread to lead you back. Your friends doze in the dark Of pleasure and cannot remember. Nobody knows you. You are the neighbor of nothing.
    FROM: Elegy for My Father, (1978), Poem, US/Canada
• Ana Menendez (1)
  • IN: In Cuba I was a German Shepherd (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: On the beach the sadness of gramophones deepens the ocean's folding and falling. It is yesterday. It is still yesterday.
    FROM: Nostalgia, (1970), Poem, US/Canada