Round 9: 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. Despite not understanding it, W. H. Auden gave the 1956 Yale Younger Poets Prize to a famously difficult collection by this poet. The line “in cold pockets of remembrance, whispers out of time” ends a poem by this poet, who wrote the collections Some Trees 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, (-5[1])thrust at the viewer,” (10[1])as in a Parmigianino painting. (10[1])For 10 points, name this poet of “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.” ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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