Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 22 – Glenway Wescott, 85 (born 1901), from a stroke
- June 22 – John Hewitt (born 1907), Irish
- September 11 – Ladislav Stehlík (born 1908), Czech poet, writer and painter
- September 16 – Howard Moss, 65, poetry editor of The New Yorker, from a heart attack;
- November 6 – John Logan
- November 29 – Gwendolyn MacEwen Canadian poet
- December 29 – Jun Ishikawa 石川淳 pen name of Ishikawa Kiyoshi, Ishikawa (born 1899), Japanese, Showa period modernist author, translator and literary critic
- Also:
- Vaughan Morgan (born 1907), New Zealand
- Samar Sen (born 1916) was a Bengali poet and journalist
Read more about this topic: 1987 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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)