March 24th, 2010
Poet Ai, who was born Florence Anthony, died on Saturday in Oklahoma at the age 62. The author of seven collections including Cruelty (1973), Sin (1986), Fate (1991) and Greed (1993), Ai won the National Book Award in 1999 for Vice. Ai taught at Oklahoma State University, which said it planned to establish a creative writing scholarship in her memory. A new volume of her poetry, No Surrender, is scheduled to be published this September.
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