2003 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • March 16 – Susan McGowan, poet (born 1907), Australian
  • June 28 – C. B. Christesen, poet and founding editor of Meanjin (born 1911), Australian
  • July 6 – Kathleen Jessie Raine (born 1908), an English poet, critic and scholar
  • July 8 – Subhash Mukhopadhyay (born 1919), Bengali poet
  • July 9 – Josephine Jacobsen (born 1908), American poet, short story writer, and critic
  • July 15 – Roberto Bolaño, at 50 (born 1953), from liver disease, Chile
  • August 7 – F. T. Prince (born 1912), South African-English poet and academic
  • September 3 – Alan Dugan (born 1923), American poet
  • November 3 – Rasul Gamzatov, Avarian/Soviet/Russian poet, called the "People's poet of Dagestan" (aged 80)
  • November 27 – Talal al-Rasheed, Saudi poet (aged 41?)
  • December 12 – Fadwa Toukan, 86, Palestinian poet
  • December 23 – John Newlove (born 1923), Canadian poet
  • date not known – Heinz Piontek (born 1925), German

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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)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)