Mark Strand

• MovieChelsea Walls

  2001
  RT4.2/10RT26%MC34/100

Award won Role or nomination

• UTUma Thurman1 title
• CWChristopher Walken1 title
• FWFrank Whaley1 title
• RLRobert Sean Leonard1 title
• HYHarris Yulin1 title
• EHEthan Hawke1 title
• KCKevin Corrigan1 title
• VDVincent D'Onofrio1 title
• GDGuillermo Díaz1 title
• RDRosario Dawson1 title

• Influenced by

  • MEMax Ernst

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Studied under, Taught.

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• <p>In a field<br />I am the absence<br />of field.<br />This is<br />always the case.<br />Wherever I am<br />I am what is missing.</p><p>When I walk<br />I part the air<br />and always<br />the air moves in<br />to fill…

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• A poem releases itself, it does it with cadence.

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• I don't know where it comes from. I think some of it comes from the unconscious. Sometimes it is more complete than other times.

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• I think a poet's focus is not quite what a prose writer's is, it's not entirely on the world outside. It's fixed on the area where the inside meets the outside, where the poet's sensibility meets the weather, meets the…

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• The elements I need to write are a place, a desk, a familiar room. I need some of my books there, I need quiet. ... I'm picturing as I'm writing. I'm putting together what I need to have this thing alive.

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• I delay typing as long as possible. When I read a poem in longhand I'm hearing it, when in typescript I'm reading it. A poem can appear finished just because of the cleanness of the typescript.

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