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Gregory Pardlo

Gregory Pardlo Biography

Poet

Gregory Pardlo is an American poet born in 1968. His work is known for its deep self-reflection and exploration of social and political issues.

Gregory Pardlo is an American poet born in 1968. His work is known for its deep self-reflection and exploration of social and political issues.

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“On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across disciplines. Often enough that work spills over to my creative reading/thinking, and I reach a point of saturation where I can't distinguish between texts and writers and everything starts to blur and smudge together.”

Thinking I Can Enough Together Form Reading Creative Teaching Discipline Benefits Composition Spills Blur Saturation

Author:Gregory Pardlo

“My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't pin down or diagnose. And like many, if not most, writers I had the self-consciousness to recognize it made great conditions for writing.”

Ifs Writing Made Self My Own Consciousness Issues Conditions Emotional Pressure Bullying Pins Self Consciousness Emotional Health Health Issues Drafting

Author:Gregory Pardlo

“I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.”

World Distance Ironic Brooklyn

Author:Gregory Pardlo

“I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty.”

Kind Two Space Poet Uncertainty Mutual Scholar Scholarship Integrating Space Between Coexist

Author:Gregory Pardlo

“Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are within. Some of the answers are without.”

Trying Answers Poet Pursuit Scholar

Author:Gregory Pardlo

About the Author

Born: 1968
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 5

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