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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.

~Mark Strand

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I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

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I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

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

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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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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

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I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

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From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

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For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.

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But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 11th, 1934

Died: November 29th, 2014

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