This man's adaptation of an earlier poem asks "Why should I climb the lookout?" before noting that "The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead"; that poem is a series of reminiscences beginning "while my hair was still cut straight across my forehead.
This man's adaptation of an earlier poem asks "Why should I climb the lookout?" before noting that "The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead"; that poem is a series of reminiscences beginning "while my hair was still cut straight across my forehead." This man's work as a translator appears in Ripostes and Cathay, which includes an adaptation of Li Po entitled "The (*) River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter." This poet, whose slogan was "make it new!" described "apparitions of these faces in a crowd" as "petals on a wet black bough" in his two-line poem "In a Station of the Metro." For 10 points, name this American poet who, while incarcerated in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, wrote the "Rock-Drill" section of his 120-section epic The Cantos.
This man's adaptation of an earlier poem asks "Why should I climb the lookout?" before noting that "The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead"; that poem is a series of reminiscences beginning "while my hair was still cut straight across my forehead.
Ezra Loomis Pound