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'''Mark Strand''' (born 1934) is a Canadian-born American poet. | '''Mark Strand''' (born 1934) is a Canadian-born American poet. | ||
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| + | He has been awarded the Bollingen Prize, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the 1974 Edgar Allen Poe Prize from The Academy of American Poets, and a Rockefeller Foundation award; along with fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation.<ref>http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/102</ref> | ||
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| + | Strand also served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1990-1991.<ref>http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate-1991-2000.html</ref> | ||
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| + | Some of his best-known poems are | ||
| + | *"The Dreadful Has Already Happened" | ||
| + | *"Eating Poetry" | ||
| + | *"Keeping Things Whole" | ||
| + | *"My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer" | ||
| + | *"Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life" | ||
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| + | ===References=== | ||
| + | <references/> | ||
[[category:Poets]] | [[category:Poets]] | ||
Revision as of 17:24, August 20, 2010
Mark Strand (born 1934) is a Canadian-born American poet.
He has been awarded the Bollingen Prize, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the 1974 Edgar Allen Poe Prize from The Academy of American Poets, and a Rockefeller Foundation award; along with fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation.[1]
Strand also served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1990-1991.[2]
Some of his best-known poems are
- "The Dreadful Has Already Happened"
- "Eating Poetry"
- "Keeping Things Whole"
- "My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer"
- "Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life"