Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- 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
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)