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Born March 1, 1920 • New York City • New York
Died July 5, 1991 (aged 71) • Missouri
Title / Office poet laureate (1989-1990) • poet laureate (1988-1989)
Awards And Honors Bollingen Prize (1981) • Pulitzer Prize (1978)
Notable Works “Blue Swallows” • “Inside the Onion” • “Mirrors and Windows” • “Sentences” • “The Homecoming Game” • “The Image and the Law” • “The Melodramatists” • “The Salt Garden” • “War Stories”
Subjects Of Study poetry

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Conrad Aiken.
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W.H. Auden
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John Berryman
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Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
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Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
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