Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 4 – Jeff Nuttall, 70 (born 1933), English poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, and social commentator
- January 8 – Norman Talbot (born 1936), Australian
- January 29 – Janet Frame, 79, English novelist who wrote poetry all her life; she published one collection, The Pocket Mirror, in 1967.
- February 17 – Bruce Beaver (born 1928), Australian
- March 3 – Pedro Pietri 59, Puerto Rican/American poet
- March 12 – Cid Corman, 79, American poet, translator and editor
- August 29 – Donald Allen, influential editor, publisher, and translator of contemporary American literature who edited The New American Poetry 1945-1960, an influential book republished in 1990.
- September 16 – Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet
- October 20 – Anthony Hecht, American poet
- December 2 – Mona Van Duyn (born 1921), American poet
- December 8 – Jackson Mac Low, American poet
- December 26 – Ishigaki Rin 石垣りん (born 1920), Japanese poet, employee of the Industrial Bank of Japan, sometimes called "the bank teller poet"
- date not known – Mary Elizabeth Frye (born 1905), American housewife, florist, author of the poem "Do not stand at my grave and weep"
Read more about this topic: 2004 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)
“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)