This author described a person whose "malady of sacrilegious mirth / spread gay contagion with each clever breath" in a poem which tells the title character to "play the straight man for a term / And tolerate the humor of the worm." This author wrote about a newborn baby whose "clear vowels rise like balloons" in a poem beginning "Love set you going like a fat gold watch." This author of "Dirge for a Joker" and "Morning Song" wrote a poem whose s
This author described a person whose "malady of sacrilegious mirth / spread gay contagion with each clever breath" in a poem which tells the title character to "play the straight man for a term / And tolerate the humor of the worm." This author wrote about a newborn baby whose "clear vowels rise like balloons" in a poem beginning "Love set you going like a fat gold watch." This author of "Dirge for a Joker" and "Morning Song" wrote a poem whose speaker warns "Herr God" and "Herr Lucifer" to "Beware / Beware" because the speaker will rise "out of the ash" with her "red hair" and "eat men like air." This poet wrote "Every woman adores a Fascist" in a poem whose speaker imagines a stake in the "fat black heart" of the title character, who may be this poet's husband Ted Hughes. For 10 points, name this author of the poems "Lady Larazus" and "Daddy."
This author described a person whose "malady of sacrilegious mirth / spread gay contagion with each clever breath" in a poem which tells the title character to "play the straight man for a term /
Sylvia {Plath}