Mark Leidner: Elegy for Pangaea

Mark Leidner’s third poetry collection, Elegy for Pangaea , is as funny, strange, and epic as his two previous collections, Returning the Sword to the Stone and Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me . His new poems explore faith, grief, money, myth, parenting, and poetry itself to create a collection as full of tantalizing ideas and dilemmas as “an enormous library with a waterbed floor.” As mystical as it is satirical, as audacious as it is personal, as hysterical as it is disconcerting, in…

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