page_title: 1972 in poetry
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1972 in poetry / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Grave of w:Ezra Pound in San Michele (Venice, Italy).
context_page_description: Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
context_section_description: Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  January 1 – Eberhard Wolfgang Möller, 65 (born 1906), German playwright and poet
  January 7 – John Berryman, 57 (born 1914), American poet, from suicide by jumping off a bridge into the Mississippi River
  January 8 – Kenneth Patchen, 60 (born 1911), American poet and painter, of a heart attack
  January 11 – Padraic Colum, 90, Irish–American poet
  February 5 – Marianne Moore, 84 (born 1887), American Modernist poet and writer
  March 4 – Richard Church (poet), 78, English poet, critic and novelist
  May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, 68 English poet
  c June – Winifred Mary Letts (born 1882), English writer
  August 2 – Paul Goodman (born 1911), American poet, of a heart attack
  August 21 – A.M. Klein, 61, Ukrainian-Canadian poet and writer
  August 24 – Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai, 83 (born 1888), Indian Tamil-language poet and freedom fighter
  September 25 – Alejandra Pizarnik, 36 (born 1936), Argentinian poet, suicide by overdose
  October 3 – Gladys Schmitt, 63 (born 1909), American poet
  October 22 – James K. Baxter, 46, New Zealand poet
  November 1 – Ezra Pound, 87 (born 1885), American poet, critic and the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism, from an intestinal blockage
  November 20 – Robert Fletcher (poet), 87, American "cowboy poet" of "Don't Fence Me In"
  December 10
  Eileen Duggan, 78, New Zealand poet and journalist
  Mark Van Doren, 78, American poet, academic and critic
  December 20 – Günter Eich (born 1907) German poet, dramatist and author
caption: Grave of Ezra Pound
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