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Background
- Born in
- Kingston
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityColumbia University School of General Studies
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry🏆 Rome Prize🏆 National Jewish Book Awards🏆 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
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1923
Born
Birth2012
Died
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