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:
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)