马克·斯特兰德

诗人、散文家、艺术评论家。1934年生于加拿大的爱德华王子岛，在美国长大并接受教育。他的诗歌获得众多荣誉和奖项，包括麦克阿瑟奖、普利策奖和博林根诗歌奖。1990年他当选为第四任美国桂冠诗人。曾任教于哥伦比亚大学。2014年11月29日，斯特兰德去世。

Mark Strand was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004. Strand was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University from 2005 until his death in 2014.