Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 22 – Glenway Wescott, 85 (born 1901), from a stroke
- June 22 – John Hewitt (born 1907), Irish
- September 11 – Ladislav Stehlík (born 1908), Czech poet, writer and painter
- September 16 – Howard Moss, 65, poetry editor of The New Yorker, from a heart attack;
- November 6 – John Logan
- November 29 – Gwendolyn MacEwen Canadian poet
- December 29 – Jun Ishikawa 石川淳 pen name of Ishikawa Kiyoshi, Ishikawa (born 1899), Japanese, Showa period modernist author, translator and literary critic
- Also:
- Vaughan Morgan (born 1907), New Zealand
- Samar Sen (born 1916) was a Bengali poet and journalist
Read more about this topic: 1987 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)