Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- March 13 – Teiko Tomita (born 1894), Japanese-born American poet who wrote in Japanese
- May 14 – Mary Oppen, 82 (born 1908), American poet, activist, artist, photographer, and writer, wife of George Oppen
- October 12 – Nagai Tatsuo 永井龍男, used the pen-name of "Tomonkyo" for his poetry (born 1904), Japanese, Showa period novelist, short-story writer, haiku poet, editor and journalist
- November 7 – Lawrence Durrell, 78 (born 1912), English novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
- November 11 – Yannis Ritsos, Greek
- Also:
- Frances Chung (poet)
- Nikos Karouzos, Greek
Read more about this topic: 1990 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)