Monday, December 01, 2014

Mark Strand, former US poet laureate, dies aged 80

Strand, a Pulitzer prize winner, was haunted by absence, loss and the passage of time from the beginning of his career

theguardian.com,

Mark Strand
Mark Strand received the Pulitzer in 1999 for Blizzard of One, a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a National Book award nomination. Photograph: Carolyn Contino/BEI/REX/Carolyn Contino/BEI/REX
Mark Strand, a Pulitzer prize winner and former US poet laureate widely praised for his concentrated, elegiac verse, has died. He was 80.

Strand, whose works were translated into more than 30 languages, died Saturday morning at his daughter’s New York home from liposarcoma that had spread throughout his body, just weeks after entering hospice care, said his daughter, Jessica Strand.

“He was a funny, elegant, generous and brilliant man,” she said of her father. “A man who lived to work and to be with his friends and the people he loved.”
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