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Born November 19, 1942 (age 83) • San Francisco • California • (Birthday in 6 days)
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize (2013)
Notable Works “Arias” • “Balladz” • “Blood, Tin, Straw” • “I Go Back to May 1937” • “One Secret Thing” • “Satan Says” • “Stag’s Leap” • “The Dead and the Living” • “The Gold Cell” • “The Matter of This World: New and Selected Poems” • “The Unswept Room” • “The Wellspring”

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Louise GlĂźck
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Philip Levine
American poet
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John Ashbery
American poet
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William Faulkner
American author
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Yusef Komunyakaa
American writer
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
American poet, scholar, and critic
John Updike
John Updike
American author
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder
American poet
Elizabeth Bishop, 1938
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet
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C.K. Williams
American poet
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James Merrill
American poet
Joseph Brodsky, 1988
Joseph Brodsky
American poet
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Carol Shields
American author
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Anthony Hecht
American poet
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Frank Bidart
American poet
Charles Simic
Charles Simic
American poet

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