Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Strand died on Saturday at age 80 at his daughter’s home in Brooklyn, New York. Strand’s daughter, Jessica, said the cause of death was liposarcoma, a cancer of the fat cells. Strand was known for his meditative, spare poems on alienation and was named poet laureate of the United States in 1990. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1999 for his collection Blizzard of One.
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