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Mark Strand was a contemporary American american poet, essayist, translator. 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. Read more on Wikipedia →

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