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We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.
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The elements I need to write, a place, a desk, a familiar room. I need some of my books there, I need quiet. zero I'm picturing as I'm writing. I'm putting together what I need to have this thing alive.
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I think a poet's focus is not quite what a prose writer's is, it's not entirely on the world outside. It's fixed on the area where the inside meets the outside, where the poet's sensibility meets the weather, meets the street, meets other people.. that shadow land between self and reality.
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I gaze upon the roast, that is sliced and laid out on my plate and over it I spoon the juices of carrot and onion. And for once I do not regret the passage of time.
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A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.
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Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.
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Born:
April 11, 1934
Died:
November 29, 2014
(aged 80)
Bio:
Mark Strand was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004.
Known for:
Blizzard of One (1998)
Collected Poems (2014)
The Continuous Life: Poems (1990)
New Selected Poems (2007)
Man and Camel (2006)
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