Mark Strand, Pulitzer-winning US poet, dies at 80

Mark Strand, a former US poet laureate who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1999, has died in New York aged 80. Strand, whose works were translated into more than 30 languages, died at his daughter's home on Saturday from liposarcoma, a rare form of cancer. via Pocket http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30267638#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa