Mark Strand
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"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. He was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University from 2005 until his death in 2014.

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The future is always beginning now.

I have been eating poetry.

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.