That poem by this author also describes how "Beauty stands and waits / with gravity / to start her death-defying leap".
One of this author's poems stars "the super realist / who must perforce perceive taught truth" and notes that he "climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making". That poem by this author also describes how "Beauty stands and waits / with gravity / to start her death-defying leap". In another poem, this author wrote that "I'm tired of waiting for Godot / I am going where turtles win" and referenced Yeats with lines like "Let us arise and go now / to the Isle of Manisfree". The first entry in the Pocket Poet series published by this author of "Constantly Risking Absurdity" and "Junkman's Obbligato" was his own collection Pictures of the Gone World. He wrote about how certain figures "writhe upon the page / in a veritable rage / of adversity" in the poem "In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see". For 10 points, identify this poet of A Coney Island of the Mind who published a number of fellow Beat poets while running the City Lights Bookstore.
One of this author's poems stars "the super realist / who must perforce perceive taught truth" and notes that he "climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making".
Lawrence Ferlinghetti