Born: 12-Feb-1923
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 3-Sep-2003
Location of death: Hyannis, MA
Cause of death: Pneumonia

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Poems

Military service: US Army (WWII)

Wife: Judith Shahn (painter)

    University: Queens College New York
    University: Olivet College, Michigan
    University: BA, Mexico City College (1949)
    Professor: Sarah Lawrence College (1967-71)

    Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1962 for Poems
    National Book Award for Poetry 1962 for Poems
    National Book Award for Poetry 2001 for Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
    Guggenheim Fellowship (twice)
    Prix de Rome

Author of books:
Poems (1961, poetry)
Poems 2 (1963, poetry)
Poems 3 (1967, poetry)
Collected Poems (1969, poetry)
Poems 4 (1974, poetry)
Sequence (1976, poetry)
New and Collected Poems 1961�1983 (1983, poetry)
Ten Years of Poems (1987, poetry)
Poems Six (1989, poetry)
Poems Seven (2001, poetry)

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