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Lucien Stryk is an American Zen poet, translator, and former English professor at Northern Illinois University (NIU).

Stryk was born in Poland, moved to Chicago aged four, and served on the Northern Illinois University faculty from 1958 until his retirement in 1991. He also has taught at universities in Japan, and was a Fulbright lecturer both in Japan and in Iran.

Stryk has written or edited more than two dozen volumes of poetry, collections, and translations of Chinese and Japanese Zen poetry. He has also recorded much of his work on Folkways Records. His poetry has been influenced by Walt Whitman, Paul Éluard, and Basho, and translated into Japanese, Chinese, French, Spanish, Swedish and Italian.

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