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Mark Strand

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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.


— Mark Strand


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Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.


— Mark Strand


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The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.


— Mark Strand


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There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.


— Mark Strand


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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.


— Mark Strand


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I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.


— Mark Strand


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He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress during the 1990–1991 term. Since 2005–06 he has been a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Strand then studied painting under Josef Albers at Yale University where he earned a B.

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. Mark Strand (born 11 April 1934) is a Canadian-born American poet essayist and translator.

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