“An American poetry professor struggles to reach a definition of poetry through a Socratic dialogue with one of his students, encountered in the local supermarket. “
Good stuff, Maynard!
And here’s a fine bit of Strand’s poetry:
The story of the end, of the last word
of the end, when told, is a story that never ends.
We tell it and retell it — one word, then another
until it seems that no last word is possible,
that none would be bearable.
Metaphor 