The Boston Globe, June 14th, 2005
Richard Eberhart, 101, a kite-flying poet who used everyday events such as encountering a dead groundhog or watching a squirrel cross a street to contemplate the fragility of life, died Thursday in his home in Hanover, N.H. Mr. Eberhart, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for "Selected Poems, 1930-1965," was a professor and poet in residence at Dartmouth College for more than 30 years. "Dick was one out our finest American poets, not only in his work, but in his embrace of other poets," Cleopatra Mathis, director of Dartmouth's creative writing program, said yesterday. Mr. Eberhart published m...
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