NEW YORK (AP) β Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Strand, who was widely praised for his concentrated and elegiac verse, has died.
His daughter, Jessica Strand, says the former U.S. poet laureate died Saturday at her New York home from cancer.
She says her 80-year-old father died of liposarcoma that had spread throughout his body.
With his lean build, white hair and round glasses, Strand had a distinctive presence even at the end of his life.
He received numerous honors, including the Pulitzer in 1999 for “Blizzard of One” and a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This fall he was nominated for a National Book Award for “Collected Poems.”
He was appointed poet laureate for 1990-91.
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AP writer Jake Pearson contributed to this story from New York.
