“This morning, as she went about humming God moves in a mysterious way, Belinda wondered what to do first,” the English novelist Barbara Pym writes of a character. Her 1950 novel, “Some Tame Gazelle,” ...
University of Illinois Press, 109 pp., $50 hardcover, $19.95 paperback Mark Strand, former poet laureate of the United States, has received countless awards. Coming nearly 45 years after his first ...