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)
“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)