Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Chaganti Somayajulu (born 1915), Indian, Tegulu-language short-story writer and poet
- March 9 — Charles Bukowski, 73 (born 1920), American poet and novelist, of leukemia
- March 29 — Lynda Hull, 49 (born 1955), American poet, in an automobile accident;
- May 24 — John Wain, 69, English poet, novelist and critic, of a stroke
- September 10 — Amy Clampitt, 74, American poet, of ovarian cancer
- December 12 — Donna J. Stone, 61 (born 1933), American poet and philanthropist, of heart failure
- date not known:
- Rolf Jacobsen
Read more about this topic: 1994 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)
“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.”
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“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
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