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Facts

Born May 28, 1919 • Logan • Utah
Died December 4, 1989 (aged 70) • Delaware
Awards And Honors Bollingen Prize (1981)
Notable Works “Iconographs”

Photos

Iconograph poem "How Everything Happens" by May Swenson
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Louis Zukofsky
American poet
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
American poet and critic
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Dudley Fitts
American teacher, critic, poet and translator
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
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Robert Fitzgerald
American poet
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Mark Strand
Canadian-American poet, writer, and translator
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Horace Gregory
American poet and critic
Kenneth Rexroth and his daughter
Kenneth Rexroth
American poet and painter
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Robert Bly
American author
H.D.
H.D.
American poet
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
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John Ciardi
American poet and critic
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Paul Bowles
American composer, translator, and author
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Richard Howard
American author
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James Wright
American author
American poet Carolyn Forché, 1989
Carolyn Forché
American poet
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Babette Deutsch
American poet, critic, translator, and novelist
Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet.
Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet
American author
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David Antin
American poet and critic
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Donald Justice
American poet and editor

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