This man described his "one true brother, / The tall cadaver, who / Either grew or did not grow" in a poem where he "lay at the edge of a well, / And thought how to bury my smile" titled "The Underground Stream".
This man described his "one true brother, / The tall cadaver, who / Either grew or did not grow" in a poem where he "lay at the edge of a well, / And thought how to bury my smile" titled "The Underground Stream". He describes how the head of fighter pilot Donald Armstrong "rolled over upon  and fell / Into the inadequate grave" in "The Performance". The poet's invalid mother constantly sings "the thousand variations" of a song from traveling minstrel shows in "Buckdacner's Choice". An excerpt from the Times appears above a poem of his where a "neat, lipsticked, stockinged" airline stewardess gets swept out of a plane. Ed is forced to perform oral sex on a mountain man in his novel about a disastrous canoe trip. For 10 points, name this author of "Falling" and Deliverance.
This man described his "one true brother, / The tall cadaver, who / Either grew or did not grow" in a poem where he "lay at the edge of a well, / And thought how to bury my smile" titled "The Underground Stream".
James (Lafayette) Dickey