Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 22 – Robert Choquette (born 1905), Canadian novelist and poet
- February 21 – Dorothy Auchterlonie (born 1915), Australian poet, academic and literary critic
- March 10 – Etheridge Knight (born 1931), American poet
- April 12 – James Schuyler, at 67, American poet and a central figure in the New York School, of a stroke
- July 5 – Howard Nemerov, 71, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
- September 2 – Laura Riding Jackson, at 90, of a heart attack
- September 24 – Dr. Seuss, 87, American author of children's verse
- September 27 – Roy Fuller, English poet and writer
- October 11 – Steven Jesse Bernstein, performance poet
- October 27 – George Barker, poet
- Also:
- George Thaniel, Canadian poet
- R. F. Brissenden
- Paul Engle, American poet, writer, editor, and novelist
- John Glassco (born 1909), Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist
Read more about this topic: 1991 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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)