About
Poet, author, and translator who was named U.S. Poet Laureate in 1990. His numerous poetry collections include The Story of Our Lives, Man and Camel, and Almost Invisible.
Before Fame
He graduated from Yale University with a B.F.A. in painting and later studied creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Trivia
He received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Blizzard of One.
Family Life
He was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and he later settled in California.
Associated With
He admired the surrealist art of Rene Magritte.
