Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 18 – Robert Payne at 71
- May 4 – Shūji Terayama 寺山 修司 (born 1935), Japanese, avant-garde poet, playwright, writer, film director and photographer
- June 19 – Vilmundur Gylfason, Icelandic historian and poet
- July 4 – Ted Berrigan, at 48 (born 1934), American
- July 12 – Edwin Denby, at 80 (born 1903) by suicide
- August 12 – Mikey Smith (born 1954), Jamaican dub poet, stoned to death
- Also:
- Frances Horovitz, English poet, broadcaster and performer of poetry
- Alden Nolan
Read more about this topic: 1983 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)