Mark Strand (born 11 April 1934) is a Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005–06, he has been a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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“Why are you going?
Because nothing means much to me anymore.
Why are you going?
I don’t know. I have never known.”
—Mark Strand (b. 1934)
“An early dew woos the half-opened flowers”
—Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.
AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)
“We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.”
—Mark Strand (b. 1934)