Former Poet Laureate of the United States and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Mark Strand died of cancer on November 29. He was 80 years old. Radio host Michael Silverblatt called Strand "a gloomy gus," and while many of his poems are dark, it would be a mistake to dismiss Strand's searching and sad voice as merely a downer. Like the sharpest scalpel, in the right hands something potentially dangerous can heal, and empathizing with Strand's meditations on his mother, his family and most importantly himself can be a healing experience. Here are ten vocabulary words from Mark Strand's poems.
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