The poet Mark Stand died © s & r On November 29, in New York, at the age of 80, an American poet, an essayist and translator, the Pulitzer Prize laureate, the 1990 laureate of 1990 Mark Stand, died. According to The New York Times , cancer became the cause of death. Mark Strand was born in 1934 in Summerside on the island of Prince Edward (Canada), Yunost spent in the USA, as well as in South and Central America.