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3 hours ago, CoffinLodger said:

Didn't he get the Nobel   prize for literature? Massive death anyway !

Pulitzer for poetry x2

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Fay Chiang, whose quest to understand her identity as a child of Chinese immigrants found outlets in vivid poetry and in community activism that helped elevate Asian-American education and culture, died on Oct. 20 in a hospice in the Bronx. She was 65.

Her daughter Xian Chiang-Waren said the cause was complications of cancer. She had lived in Manhattan, in the East Village, until the cancer spread to her brain.
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Poet Jorie Graham has been suffering from cancer for the last five years and tells The Guardian

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‘I am living in the late season, but it has its songs, too’

Make of that what you will. :scratchhead:

 

I couldn't find much more specific about her diagnosis or prognosis, but she's definitely obitable. 

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For all the flowery talk about death which seems to be everywhere now (see anything Leah Bracknell posts), my favourite such comment by a Drop 40-er in recent years has to be Jenny Diski's announcement of "Life cancelled/cancered."

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Times 2012 - breast cancer.

 

Her poetry book, checks for cancer in the blood.

 

 

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In “From Inside the MRI” this technique turns terrifying. Inserting a contrast drip in her vein to search out cancer, the technician speaks to the poet: “Can you hear me, he says, squeeze this if problems arise he says, ok? ready?” What follows is the book’s most ecstatic rupture of language. Our primal tool to communicate is stripped of human affect:

if if if if
if yes if yes—here’s this to worship—hi hi hi hihi hi high high
high high not not not not highnot highnot not not—are you
oknext lasts
three minutes—ready? yes?—not not not not be be be be notnot bebe notnot bebe

 

 

 

This now? Guessing Stage III or IV breast cancer, prognosis unknown.

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2 hours ago, DevonDeathTrip said:
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‘I am living in the late season, but it has its songs, too’

Make of that what you will. :scratchhead:

 

I make it a bit of a rip-off of Keats (To Autumn)

 

Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they?
   Think not of them, thou hast thy music too
 
Proper poetry that rhymes and scans.

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It's a homage.

 

Remember Malcolm Hulke on writing: all you need to write is an original idea. It needn't be your own.

 

Not a fan of her poetry, the little I've seen of it, mind you.

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My attitude is if you write it out without line breaks and it sounds like prose, then prose is what it is.

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On 07/12/2017 at 20:43, DevonDeathTrip said:

 

In an unhappy twist of fate, lawyer and philanthropist William W Graham, Jorie Graham's ex-husband, has committed suicide by gunshot, just like his father did in 1963.

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3 minutes ago, Thatcher said:

Jenny Joseph, English poet, has died aged 85.

 

I hope she spent her pension on brandy.

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A lisp-talkin cowboy named Seth
Got on his horse and 'rode Weth'
Halfway through his ride
Seth's horse up and died
"Now you're juth like Elithabeth'.


Elizabeth Ebert, who rose to queenly prominence within the chivalrous ranks of cowboy poetry, died on March 20, after breaking a hip. She was 93, and cognizant enough to remark, just hours before she died, that it was her wedding anniversary.
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Oh sure 70% of you have blocked Sir C.
But the other 30%....not a single 'like'?  
I know there's a conspiracy.  I thought we were all friends, this makes Sir C all melancholy and shit.
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J.D. McClatchy, a revered and versatile man of letters praised as a poet, librettist, educator, editor and translator, died Tuesday night at his home in Manhattan. He was 72.

Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced that McClatchy, known as "Sandy" to his friends, had been battling cancer and died at his home in Manhattan.
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Portuguese poet António Arnault, dead at 82. What makes him more likely to get a QO, however, is he co-founded Portugal's Socialist Party with former DDP fave Mário Soares, and served under Soares as the Minister of Social Affairs in his first administration.

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5 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

Australian poet & activist Candy Royalle has died of ovarian cancer.  She was 37.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/25/a-fierce-bright-light-poet-and-activist-candy-royalle-dies-aged-37

 

 

sounds like a pole dancer.

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Did Irish poet Matthew Sweeney trouble your long list with his ALS diagnosis? Too bad, he’s dead at 66.

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I think it mandatory that anyone posting an obit in the Poets thread should do so using a rhyming stanza of some sort.  I mean c'mon....

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