Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 28 – George Woodcock (born 1912), Canadian poet, biographer, academic and prominent anarchist
- February 6 – James Merrill, 68, of a heart attack
- April 14 – Brian Coffey (born 1905), Irish poet and publisher
- April 22 – Jane Kenyon, 47, of leukemia
- May 11 – David Avidan, 61, Israeli poet.
- July 7 – Helene Johnson, after osteoporosis
- July 16:
- May Sarton, 83 (born 1912), American poet, novelist, and memoirist, of breast cancer
- Stephen Spender 86, (born 1909), English poet and essayist, of a heart ailment
- September 3 – Earle Birney, 91, Canadian poet
- September 18 – Donald Davie, 73, of cancer
- October 22 – Kingsley Amis, 73, after an accidental fall
- November 5 – Essex Hemphill, 38, American poet and gay activist, from complications relating to AIDS
- December 30 – Heiner Muller (born 1929), German
Read more about this topic: 1995 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)