Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 19 – James Dickey, 73 (born 1923), American
- April 5 – Allen Ginsberg, 70 (born 1926), of liver cancer, American
- May 15 – Laurie Lee, 82, English poet, novelist and screenwriter
- August 27 – Johannes Edfelt, 92, Swedish
- November 12:
- James Laughlin, 83, American poet, publisher and man of letters
- William Matthews, 55, American poet and essayist, of a heart attack
- November 17 – David Ignatow, 83, American poet
- December 13 – Claude Roy, pen name of Claude Orland (born 1915), French poet, novelist, essayist, art critic and journalist; an activist in the Communist Party until his expulsion in 1956
- December 20 – Denise Levertov, 74, of lymphoma
Read more about this topic: 1997 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)
“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)
“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)