Deaths
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- January 28 – Joseph Brodsky, 55 (born 1940), a Russian-American poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991–1992), of a heart attack
- February 11 – Amelia Rosselli, 66 (born 1950), Italian poet and ethnomusicologist, from suicide, on the same date Sylvia Plath killed herself.
- March 18 – Odysseus Elytis, Greek
- April 13 – George Mackay Brown, 74, Scottish poet, author and dramatist
- May 11 – Sam Ragan (born 1915), American poet, journalist; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1982–1996
- August 18 – Geoffrey Dearmer, 103, British poet
- September 25 – Mina Loy, 83, an artist, poet, Futurist, actor
- December 10 – Dorothy Porter, 54, Australian poet
- Date not known:
- Hermann Kesten (poet) (born 1900), German
- Larry Levis, 49, American poet, of a heart attack
- Gaston Miron, Canada
- Constance Urdang, American poet and novelist, wife of Donald Finkel
Read more about this topic: 1996 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)