One poem in this collection describes a date with a married woman eating chicken paprika, and in another the speaker assures himself that he has not hacked someone's body up and hidden the pieces, concluding with "Nobody is ever missing."
One poem in this collection describes a date with a married woman eating chicken paprika, and in another the speaker assures himself that he has not hacked someone's body up and hidden the pieces, concluding with "Nobody is ever missing." Another begins with the declaration, "Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so," and another tells its addressee, "you delivered infinite babies, in one great birth"; that poem is an elegy for William Carlos Williams, the "Lovely Man." Centering around a character described in the first poem as "huffy" and "unappeasable," who must cope with the suicide of his father, for 10 points, identify this collection of poems about Henry, written by John Berryman.
One poem in this collection describes a date with a married woman eating chicken paprika, and in another the speaker assures himself that he has not hacked someone's body up and hidden the pieces, concluding with "Nobody is ever missing."
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