A poem by this author remarks that "one last verse / awaits its end," declares that its title poet "sleeps soundly," and says, "thine Island was its twin."
The speaker of a poem by this author opens, "The last twenty years were good for practically everybody / save the dead." This author suggests that "Maybe the Almighty Himself has turned a bit bourgeois / and uses a credit card" in "Transatlantic." A poem by this author remarks that "one last verse / awaits its end," declares that its title poet "sleeps soundly," and says, "thine Island was its twin." This poet was mentored by Anna (*) Akhmatova and was forced into 18 months of hard labor on a farm for "social parasitism." This poet says, "when "the future" is uttered, swarms of mice / rush out of the Russian language and gnaw a piece / of ripened memory" and attributes "all rhymes" and his "wan flat voice" to his place of birth in his "A Part of Speech." This poet wrote "Elegy for John Donne." For 10 points, name this Nobel Prize winner and USSR exile who was named Poet Laureate of the U.S. in 1991, the author of the collection To Urania.
The speaker of a poem by this author opens, "The last twenty years were good for practically everybody / save the dead.
Joseph Brodsky