Round 12: 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 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, (10[1])thrust at the viewer,” as in a Parmigianino painting. For 10 points, name this poet of “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.” ■END■ (10[1]0[6])

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