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Mark Strand

Mark Strand

Mark Strand (born 11 April 1934) is a Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005–06, he has been a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

It's very hard to write humor.
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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
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Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
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I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
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I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.
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I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
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And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
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