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Arts & Literature
Mark Strand
Who
Mark Strand · Arts & Literature
What
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and US Poet Laureate
When
1934, Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada — 2014, Brooklyn, New York, United States
Where
Canada · United States
Biography
Mark Strand is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and US Poet Laureate
How & why
Strand was a poet and essayist who won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for 'Blizzard of One' and served as U.S. Poet Laureate in 1990. Born in Canada and raised largely in the Americas, he was the son of a Jewish father and often reflected on absence, self and mortality in spare, luminous verse.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
Contributions & Sources
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and US Poet Laureate
1934
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
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