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Mark Strand

American

April 11, 1934

Poet

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It's very hard to write humor.

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Each moment is a place you've never been.

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

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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.

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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.

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It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.

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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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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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