Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 13 – John Frederick Nims, United States
- February 22 – William Bronk, 81, United States
- May 10 – Shel Silverstein, 68, children's poet
- August 15 – Patricia Beer, 79, British poet and critic
- September 8 – Moondog, 83, street poet (aka Louis T. Hardin)
- October 9 – João Cabral de Melo Neto, 79, Brazilian poet and diplomat
- December 10 – Edward Dorn, 70, American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets
- date not known:
- December – Ida Affleck Graves, 97
- Felipe Alfau (born 1902), Spanish-American poet, translator and author
- Sufia Kamal (born 1911), Bengali poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activist
Read more about this topic: 1999 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)
“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)
“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)