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Chicago poet wins Wallace Stevens Award
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Published October 9, 2004
NEW YORK --
Mark Strand, a University of Chicago professor and former U.S. poet laureate, was named Friday winner of the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award by the American Academy of Poets.
The academy said the award, named after a late poet of renown, recognizes "outstanding and proven mastery." It said Strand's recent books "blend elegiac fullness and tragicomic wit." The Canadian-born Strand has received other honors for his poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1999.
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