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Himmler's corpse after his suicide by cyanide poisoning, May 1945 "I am Heinrich Himmler." [236] — Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi officer (23 May 1945), last words said during his suicide shortly after bitting into a hidden potassium cyanide pill before collapsing dead onto the floor of the headquarters of the Second British Army in Lüneburg.
Michael Smith, usually referred to as Mikey Smith (14 September 1954 – 17 August 1983), was a Jamaican dub poet. [1] Along with Linton Kwesi Johnson, and Mutabaruka, he was one of the best-known dub poets. In 1978, Smith represented Jamaica at the 11th World Festival of Youth and Students in Cuba.
The poem was published in the Sangamo Journal, [2] a newspaper in which Lincoln had previously published other works. The poem uses a similar meter, sync, dictation and tone with many other poems published by Lincoln and according to Richard Miller, the man who discovered the poem, the theme of the interplay between rationality and madness is "especially Lincolnian in spirit". [3]
The soldier's father read the poem on BBC radio in 1995 in remembrance of his son, who had left the poem among his personal effects in an envelope addressed 'To all my loved ones'. The poem's first four lines are engraved on one of the stones of the Everest Memorial, Chukpi Lhara, in Dhugla Valley, near Everest. Reference to the wind and snow ...
The Love of Strangers – Poetry Book Society Special Commendation (Century Hutchinson, 1989) Selected Poems, 1972-1997 – Poetry Book Society Special Commendation (Smith/Doorstop, 1997) The Resurrection of the Body (USA: Sheep Meadow; Smith/Doorstop, 2007) Collected Poems (Smith/Doorstop, 2009, Sheep Meadow Press, 2010)
Alexander Smith, 14 months old, and Michael Smith, 3, are shown in this photo taken the month before their death in Oct. 1994, in Union, S.C.
Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison.The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.
Karr won a 1989 Whiting Award for her poetry. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry in 2005 and has won Pushcart prizes for both her poetry and essays. Karr has published five volumes of poetry: Abacus (Wesleyan University Press, CT, 1987, in its New Poets series), The Devil's Tour (New Directions NY, 1993, an original TPB), Viper Rum (New Directions NY, 1998, an original TPB), Sinners Welcome ...