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Born January 10, 1928 • Detroit • Michigan
Died February 14, 2015 (aged 87) • Fresno • California
Title / Office poet laureate (2011-2012)
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize • National Book Award • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1987)
Notable Works “The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography” • “What Work Is”

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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