Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 18 – Robert Payne at 71
- May 4 – Shūji Terayama 寺山 修司 (born 1935), Japanese, avant-garde poet, playwright, writer, film director and photographer
- June 19 – Vilmundur Gylfason, Icelandic historian and poet
- July 4 – Ted Berrigan, at 48 (born 1934), American
- July 12 – Edwin Denby, at 80 (born 1903) by suicide
- August 12 – Mikey Smith (born 1954), Jamaican dub poet, stoned to death
- Also:
- Frances Horovitz, English poet, broadcaster and performer of poetry
- Alden Nolan
Read more about this topic: 1983 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)