The speaker of another of his poems discusses "this print of mine, that has kept its color" and "this serviceable body that no sunlight dyes" before lamenting "the world goes by my cage and never sees me."
This writer criticized the settings of another writer's poems as the products of "a cook's boy helping the gloomier dwarfs boil toads and snails" in a series of lectures that begins by asking listeners to "imagine a man on an island" who 3nds a box containing all of W. H. Auden's works. The speaker of one of his poems recalls "the factory that manufactures, a7ter so long, Vicks VapoRub Ointment" and "a dinosaur and pterodactyl with... Papier-mȃché smiles," references to this poet's childhood in Hollywood. The speaker of another of his poems discusses "this print of mine, that has kept its color" and "this serviceable body that no sunlight dyes" before lamenting "the world goes by my cage and never sees me." That poem describes "wild beasts, sparrows pecking the llamas' grain" at the title location. Another of his speakers "fell into the State" until his "wet fur froze," and recalls that "they washed me out of the turret with a hose." For 10 points, name this American poet of "The Lost World," "The Woman at the Washington Zoo," and "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner."
This writer criticized the settings of another writer's poems as the products of "a cook's boy helping the gloomier dwarfs boil toads and snails" in a series of lectures that begins by asking listeners to "imagine a man on an island" who 3nds a box containing all of W. H. Auden's works.
Randall Jarrell