Deaths
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- January 28 – Joseph Brodsky, 55 (born 1940), a Russian-American poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991–1992), of a heart attack
- February 11 – Amelia Rosselli, 66 (born 1950), Italian poet and ethnomusicologist, from suicide, on the same date Sylvia Plath killed herself.
- March 18 – Odysseus Elytis, Greek
- April 13 – George Mackay Brown, 74, Scottish poet, author and dramatist
- May 11 – Sam Ragan (born 1915), American poet, journalist; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1982–1996
- August 18 – Geoffrey Dearmer, 103, British poet
- September 25 – Mina Loy, 83, an artist, poet, Futurist, actor
- December 10 – Dorothy Porter, 54, Australian poet
- Date not known:
- Hermann Kesten (poet) (born 1900), German
- Larry Levis, 49, American poet, of a heart attack
- Gaston Miron, Canada
- Constance Urdang, American poet and novelist, wife of Donald Finkel
Read more about this topic: 1996 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)