James Merrill's poem "Lost in Translation" features a search for a translation of Paul ValÃ©ry's "Palme" by this author.
James Merrill's poem "Lost in Translation" features a search for a translation of Paul ValÃ©ry's "Palme" by this author. One of his poems describes a time when "whoever is alone will stay alone, / will sit, read, write long letters through the evening." That poem opens, "Lord: it is time" and is entitled "Autumn Day." He wrote Dinggedichte, or "thing-poems," such as one that describes the smile that runs through the title object's hips and thighs and ends "You must change your life." This author of the "Archaic Torso of Apollo" wrote a collection of ten poems that begins by asking, "Who, If I cried out, would hear me among the angels' / hierarchies?" For 10 points name this German-language poet of "The Panther," Sonnets to Orpheus, and the Duino Elegies.  
James Merrill's poem "Lost in Translation" features a search for a translation of Paul ValÃ©ry's "Palme" by this author.
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