Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 3 – Rose Ausländer, at 86 (born 1901)
- February 3 – Robert Duncan, at 69 (born 1919), of a heart attack
- March 30 – John Clellon Holmes, 62 (born 1926), of cancer
- June 16 – Miguel Pinero, 41, of cirrhosis of the liver
- October 1 – Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 90
- Also:
- Léonie Fuller Adams
- Henry Coulette
- M. Govindan (born 1919), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- Premendra Mitra (born 1904) Bengali poet, novelist, short-story writer, including thrillers and science fiction
- Mairtin O Direain (born 1910), Irish
Read more about this topic: 1988 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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)