Deaths
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- February 16 – George MacBeth, 60 (born 1932), Scottish poet and novelist, of motor neuron disease
- February 18 – Robert Gittings, 81 (born 1911), English poet and biographer
- April 11 – Eve Merriam, (née Moskowitz), 75, American poet, playwright and teacher, of cancer
- May 12 – Nikos Gatsos, Greek
- November 17 – Audre Lorde (aka Gamba Adisa), 58, a writer, poet and political activist, of liver cancer
- November 19 – Kenneth Burke, a major American literary theorist and philosopher
Read more about this topic: 1992 In Poetry
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“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)