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shenmue

(38,506 posts) Sun Nov 30, 2014, 11:01 PM Nov 2014

Poet Mark Strand dead at 80

http://m.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30267638

From the article:

Mark Strand, a former US poet laureate who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1999, has died in New York aged 80.

Strand, whose works were translated into more than 30 languages, died at his daughter's home on Saturday from liposarcoma, a rare form of cancer.

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