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    Philip Levine, Fierce About Poetry

    The late U.S. poet laureate on growing up Jewish in Detroit, playing tennis in verse, and hanging on to his memories, which are the source of his art

    byJake Marmer
  • Mark Strand in Jerusalem, May 2011.(Rahel Jaskow/Flickr)
    Mark Strand in Jerusalem, May 2011.(Rahel Jaskow/Flickr)
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    What Is Missing

    Mark Strand, the former poet laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner, has given up poetry and turned to making art. He talks about his work, Jewish mothers, absence, and Israel.

    byBridget Kevane
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