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Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Mark Strand
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Born:
April 11, 1934
Died:
November 29, 2014
(aged 80)
Bio:
Mark Strand 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.
Known for:
Blizzard of One (1998)
Collected Poems (2014)
The Continuous Life: Poems (1990)
New Selected Poems (2007)
Man and Camel (2006)
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