Mark Strand
Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004. Strand was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University from 2005 until his death in 2014.
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Born | (1934-04-11)April 11, 1934 Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada |
Died | November 29, 2014(2014-11-29) (aged 80) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
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Nationality | American, Canadian |
Education | Antioch College (BA) Yale University (BFA) University of Iowa (MFA) |
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