Deaths
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- January 7 – John Berryman, 57, American poet, from suicide (jumping off a bridge into the Mississippi River)
- January 8 – Kenneth Patchen, 60 (born 1911), American poet and painter, of a heart attack
- January 11 – Padraic Colum, 90, Irish–American poet
- February 5 – Marianne Moore, 84 (born 1887), American Modernist poet and writer
- March 4 – Richard Church (poet), 78, English poet, critic and novelist
- May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, 68 English poet
- August 2 – Paul Goodman (born 1911), American poet, of a heart attack
- August 21 – A.M. Klein, 61, Ukrainian-Canadian poet and writer
- October 3 – Gladys Schmitt, 63
- October 22 – James K. Baxter, 46, New Zealand poet
- November 1 – Ezra Pound, 87, an American poet, critic and the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism, from an intestinal blockage
- November 20 – Robert Fletcher (poet), 87, poet of "Don't Fence Me In"
- December 10 – Mark Van Doren, 78, American poet, academic and critic
- December 20 – Günter Eich (born 1907) German poet, dramatist, and author
- Also:
- Eileen Duggan
- Andrew John Young
Read more about this topic: 1972 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)
“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)