Poetry. Poet Laureate Emeritus and Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Strand's new book is a collection of lists, each of which plays with delicate insistence on one archetypal word, like the chicken, shadow, and moon of the title. From Sun: The sun just happened the way we did/ The sun's catastrophes were overstated/ Blow into the sun and become red in the face/ What are feelings without the sun.... With the same fragmentary precision seen in the pieces of old astronomical diagrams leafed through the text, Strand draws clean, artistic lines from his subjects. The New York Times Book Review has called the author undeniably one of the luminaries of contemporary poetry.