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Mark Strand
American
Poet
Born:
Apr 11
,
1934
Died:
Nov 29
,
2014
Life
Poem
Poetry
Think
Writing
You
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The future is always beginning now.
Mark Strand
Future
Beginning
Always
Now
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
Mark Strand
Me
Say
Bore
Poems
Tend
Like
Which
Engage
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
You
Yourself
Writing
Would
Would-Be
Point
Stuff
Autobiographical
Where
Want
Dishonest
Certain
Certain Point
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
Mark Strand
Creative
Writing
Programs
Something
Poetry
Departments
Happens
English
Creative Writing
Universities
It's very hard to write humor.
Mark Strand
Humor
Write
Very
Hard
I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
Mark Strand
Say
Would
Poetry
Always
Testimony
Been
American
Personal
I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.
Mark Strand
Beautiful
Truth
Concerned
Am
Nor
Conventional
Notions
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
Mark Strand
Me
Think
Responsive
Rather
Tend
Never
Part
Blind
Self-Serving
Curious
Expressive
Tedious
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.
Mark Strand
Life
Located
Poems
More
Facts
Journalistic
Robert
Course
His
Actual
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
Mark Strand
Life
Art
Made
Unless
Has-Been
Poetry
Course
Been
Elevated
Sufficiently
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