A poem by this author informs George Herbert that "your descendant is a Black / Lady in South Carolina, her name is Irma," and describes a man who helped girls jump out of windows during the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
A poem by this author informs George Herbert that "your descendant is a Black / Lady in South Carolina, her name is Irma," and describes a man who helped girls jump out of windows during the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. The player uses a "neuro-electronic matrix" to enter the memories of four deceased individuals in this man's collaborative work with Synapse Software, the interaction fiction game Mindwheel. A long poem by this author dubs members of the title profession "the first citizens of contingency," and presents The Bacchae as a case study in madness. This author collected his poems "Shirt" and "Essay on Psychiatrists" in the collections The Want Bone and The Figured Wheel, respectively. The lines "Midway on our life's journey, I found myself / In dark woods, the right road lost" open a terza rima- preserving translation by this man. For 10 points, name this founder of the Favorite Poem Project, a former US Poet Laureate who translated Dante's Inferno.
A poem by this author informs George Herbert that "your descendant is a Black / Lady in South Carolina, her name is Irma," and describes a man who helped girls jump out of windows during the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
Robert  Pinsky