Pain is filtered in a poem so Posted on March 19, 2012March 19, 2007 by admin “Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.” — Mark Strand Author: Mark Strand Category: poetry Tags: poetry, Mark Strand Spread the love Related posts: Usually a life turned into a poem I would say that American poetry has I believe that all poetry is formal And yet, in a culture like ours,