1946 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • January 9 – Countee Cullen, 42 (born 1903), African American poet
  • March 1 – Adriana Porter, 89, Wiccan poet
  • May 25 – Ernest Rhys, 87, British poet, author, novelist, essayist best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics
  • July 8 – Orrick Glenday Johns, 59, American poet and playwright
  • July 27 – Gertrude Stein, 73 (born 1874, poet and dramatist, of cancer

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    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)

    You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.
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    On almost the incendiary eve
    Of deaths and entrances ...
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