About
Award-winning poet who is best remembered for such poetry collections as The Form of Loss and The Astronomers. He received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry for a 1989 collection entitled For Louis Pasteur.
Before Fame
He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Years later, he taught at nearby Duke University.
Trivia
His collected poems were published three years before his death.
Family Life
He was born in Rome, Georgia. He died in San Francisco, California at the age of seventy-five.
Associated With
He and fellow poet Ann Stanford both completed coursework at Stanford University.
