Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 16 – George MacBeth, 60 (born 1932), Scottish poet and novelist, of motor neuron disease
- February 18 – Robert Gittings, 81 (born 1911), English poet and biographer
- April 11 – Eve Merriam, (née Moskowitz), 75, American poet, playwright and teacher, of cancer
- May 12 – Nikos Gatsos, Greek
- November 17 – Audre Lorde (aka Gamba Adisa), 58, a writer, poet and political activist, of liver cancer
- November 19 – Kenneth Burke, a major American literary theorist and philosopher
Read more about this topic: 1992 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)
“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)
“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)