Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- July 18 – Julian Bell, English poet, and a member of a family whose notable members included his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell; his aunt, Virginia Woolf; his younger brother, the writer Quentin Bell; and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett, his half-sister; died in the Spanish Civil War
- October 22 – Chūya Nakahara 中原 中也 (born 1907), early Shōwa period Japanese poet (surname: Nakahara)
- December 26 – Ivor Gurney, English composer and poet
- December 29 – Don Marquis, American poet, artist, newspaper columnist, humorist, playwright and author best known for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel"
- August 11 – Edith Wharton American novelist, short story writer, designer and poet
- Also:
- Anna Branch
- Constance Woodrow
Read more about this topic: 1937 In Poetry
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...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
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The many deaths one must have died
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