This man opened his first poetry collection with the lines "Every time the bucks went clattering over Oklahoma a firecat bristled in the way," which appears in the poem "Earthy Anecdote."
This man opened his first poetry collection with the lines "Every time the bucks went clattering over Oklahoma a firecat bristled in the way," which appears in the poem "Earthy Anecdote." The narrator of another poem in the same collection knows "noble accents and lucid, inescapable rhythms" and points out "Among twenty snowy mountains, the only moving thing was the eye of" the title creature. Another poem by this author describes a woman whose "horny feet protrude" and begins "Call the roller of big cigars." For 10 points, name this American author of Harmonium, which contains his poems "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and "The Emperor of Ice Cream."
This man opened his first poetry collection with the lines "Every time the bucks went clattering over Oklahoma a firecat bristled in the way," which appears in the poem "Earthy Anecdote."
Wallace Stevens