An outtake from The New York Times obit of the poet Mark Strand:
To critics who complained that his poems, with their emphasis on death, despair and dissolution, were too dark, he replied, “I find them evenly lit.”
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12.01.2014
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what is poetry anyway?
Tell me, you people out there, what is poetry anyway?
Can anyone die without even a little?
--Mark Strand, concluding lines from “The Great Poet Returns,” Blizzard of One (Knopf, 1998)
Can anyone die without even a little?
--Mark Strand, concluding lines from “The Great Poet Returns,” Blizzard of One (Knopf, 1998)
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