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:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)