1998 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • January 23 — John Forbes, 47 (born 1915), Australian poet
  • February 8 — Enoch Powell, 85 (born 1912) Poet and MP from 1950 to 1987.
  • March 23 — Hilda Morley, 81 (born 1916), American poet, after a fall
  • April 19 — Octavio Paz, 84, Mexican writer, poet, diplomat, and winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • April 30 — Nizar Qabbani, 75, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher of Arabic poetry
  • June 25 — John Malcolm Brinnin, American poet and critic
  • July 1 — Martin Seymour-Smith, British poet, critic and biographer
  • July 14 — Miroslav Holub, 75, a Czech poet and immunologist
  • July 28 — Zbigniew Herbert, influential Polish poet, essayist and moralist
  • October 25 – Dick Higgins, 60 (born 1938), British-born poet, composer, and early Fluxus artist who had ties to the Language poets
  • October 28 — Ted Hughes, 68, English poet and British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death
  • date not known — Aimee Joan Grunberger, 44, of cancer
  • date not known — Michalis Katsaros, Greek

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    “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!”
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    “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.”
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