Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 4 – Christopher Isherwood (born 1904), English-born American novelist and poet
- January 9 – W. S. Graham (born 1918), Scottish poet
- January 12 – Bob Kaufman, at 60 (born 1925), of emphysema
- March 4 – Elizabeth Smart, at 72 (born 1913), Canadian poet and novelist
- March 30 – John Ciardi, at 69 (born 1916), American poet, translator, and etymologist, of a heart attack
- April 21 – Salah Jahin, also spelled "Salah Jaheen" صلاح جاهين (born 1930), Egyptian, Arabic-language poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist
- June 24 – Rex Warner (born 1905), English classicist, author, poet and translator
- July 13 – Brion Gysin, at 70 (born 1916), English painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist
- August 19 – Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, at 73 (born 1913), Urdu poet, essayist, critic, biographer
- August 20 – Milton Acorn, at 63 (born 1923), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright, of heart disease and diabetes
- August 31 – Elizabeth Coatsworth, at 93 (born 1893), American author of children's fiction and poetry
- December 8 – Henry Reed, at 72 (born 1914), English British poet, translator, radio playwright and journalist
- Also:
- Laurence Collinson (born 1925), Australian playwright, actor, poet, journalist and secondary school teacher
- Atul Chandra Hazarika (born 1903), Indian, writing in Assamese; poet, dramatist, children's story writer and translator; called "Sahitycharjya" by an Assamese literary society
- Audrey Longbottom (born c. 1922), Australian
Read more about this topic: 1986 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)