Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 14 – Ralph Chubb, 77, English poet, printer, and artist
- February 28 – F. S. Flint (born 1885), English poet, translator and prominent member of the Imagist group
- March 23 – Franklin Pierce Adams, 78 (born 1881), American writer whose "The Conning Tower" column gave critical publicity to many poets and writers; also a translator of poetry
- May 30 – Boris Pasternak, 70 (born 1890), Russian poet and writer, winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, of lung cancer
- June 17 – Pierre Reverdy (born 1889), French
- August 8 – Harry Kemp, 76 (born 1883) American poet
- August 19 – Frances Cornford (born 1886), English poet
- November 9 – Yoshii Isamu 吉井勇 (born 1886), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period tanka poet and playwright
- Also:
- Walter D'Arcy Creswell (born 1896), New Zealand
- David Diop
Read more about this topic: 1960 In Poetry
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“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
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
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)