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Shortly afterwards, he was posthumously awarded the Northern Palmyra, [1] one of the most highly sought-after prizes in Russian poetry, for his collection Opravdaniye zhizni ("A Reason to Live"). He had at least one prior suicide attempt in 1999. [4] His only son, Artem (born 19 January 1993) died of a cardiac arrest in September 2020, at the ...
Xu Lizhi (Chinese: 许立志, 1990 – 1 October 2014) was a Chinese poet and factory worker.Xu worked for Foxconn and attracted media attention after his suicide, after which his friends published his collection of poems.
Royer is the founder and editor-in-chief of Persephone's Daughters, a digital literary and arts journal dedicated for survivors of abuse. [12] Royer writes about sexual assault, violence, mental illnesses, pain and death, and abortion. Healing and recovery are also common themes. [1] [13] [14]
Canadian poet Robert Billings committed suicide following the breakdown of his marriage, and after the falls froze over for the winter, his body wouldn't be recovered until June 1987. Three years prior in 1983, Billings authored the poem "Epiphanies on the First Cold Day", which detailed his future method of suicide. 28 September 1989
The poem is highly confessional in tone, focusing on the suicide of friend and fellow poet Sylvia Plath in 1963, as well as Sexton's own yearning for death. Due to the fact that Sexton wrote the poem only days after Plath's passing within February 1963, "Sylvia’s Death" is often seen as an elegy for Plath. [1]
Suicide attempt survivor Clancy Martin is author of "How Not To Kill Yourself." He shares mental health tips and suicide prevention advice for people in crisis.
From 1956 to 1966, he was the poetry editor and critic for The Observer, where he introduced British readers to John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Zbigniew Herbert, and Miroslav Holub. Alvarez was the author of many non-fiction books. His renowned study of suicide, The Savage God, gained
It is common to depict suicide in literature. Suicide , the act of deliberately killing oneself, is a prominent action in many important works of literature. Authors use the suicide of a character to portray defiance, despair, love, or honor.