Packet N: Tossup 14

A poem by this author that describes “a chill, a blight moving outward” inspired a Pulitzer-winning piece for string orchestra by Roger Reynolds. Adam Gordon carries this author’s Collected Poems in the novel Leaving the Atocha Station, which is titled (-5[1])for one of this author’s poems. (10[1])Despite not understanding it, W. H. Auden gave the 1956 (10[1])Yale Younger Poets (10[1])Prize to a famously difficult collection by this poet. (10[3]-5[1])The line “in cold pockets of remembrance, whispers out of time” ends a poem by this poet, who wrote the collections Some Trees (10[1])and The Tennis Court Oath. A poem by this member of the New York School begins by describing “the right hand bigger than the head, (10[3]-5[1])thrust (10[1])at the viewer,” (10[2])as in (10[1])a Parmigianino (10[1]-5[1])painting. (10[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])name this poet of “Self-Portrait (10[1])in a Convex Mirror.” (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[22])

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