One poem by this author describes "a cave-mouth flame / Of leaf and stick / Trembling at the mind's wick".
One poem by this author describes "a cave-mouth flame / Of leaf and stick / Trembling at the mind's wick". He described an anvil "[h]orned as a unicorn" in a poem that begins "All I know is a door into the dark". In one poem, this author of "Tinder" recounted carrying milk "in a bottle / corked sloppily with paper" to a man who drinks it before resuming the title activity. This poet of "The Forge" described animals whose "loose necks pulsed like sails" and who sat "[p]oised like mud grenades". A 1999 work by him became more popular than a similar work by Burton Raffel. He declared: "By God, the old man could handle a spade" in his poem "Digging". For 10 points, name this Irish author who described collecting frogspawn in "Death of a Naturalist" and translated Beowulf.
One poem by this author describes "a cave-mouth flame / Of leaf and stick / Trembling at the mind's wick".
Seamus (Justin) Heaney