Mark Strand asserts that the poem, though seemingly about the
Strand has been compared to Robert Bly in his use of surrealism, though he attributes the surreal elements in his poems to an admiration of the works of Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, and René Magritte.
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In 2004, Pfefferle published Poets on Place, the story of his year-long trip around America interviewing and photographing American poets: Mark Strand, Rita Dove, Denise Duhamel, Charles Wright, Mark Wunderlich, Henry Taylor, David St. John, and Nikki Giovanni.
He was succeeded by Mark Strand, who had been the chief of staff to former U.S. Senator James M. Talent, a Missouri Republican who was defeated for a full term on November 7, 2006.