In addition to "Praise for an Urn" and "Black Tambourine" this author wrote a collection that ends with six poems, the first of which begins "Above the fresh ruffles of the surf, bright striped urchins flay each other with sand."
One poem by this author discusses "these well-meant idioms into the smoky spring that fills the suburbs." In another poem a black man "wanders in some mid-kingdom" and it is noted that "Aesop, driven to pondering, found Heaven with the tortoise and the hare." In addition to "Praise for an Urn" and "Black Tambourine" this author wrote a collection that ends with six poems, the first of which begins "Above the fresh ruffles of the surf, bright striped urchins flay each other with sand." He wrote a love poem that quotes a nonsensical passage in The Alchemist, and that poem begins "the mind has shown itself at times too much the baked and labeled dough." This author of six poems called Voyages wrote a poem about "this fabulous shadow [that] only the sea keeps." The speaker of that poem by this author saw the "dice of drowned men's bones." This author "The Marriage of Faustus and Helen" and "At Melville's Tomb" put those poems into his White Buildings. For 10 points, name this author of an epic poem called The Bridge.
One poem by this author discusses "these well-meant idioms into the smoky spring that fills the suburbs."
Hart Crane