He addressed a "star of evil!
An invective poem by this writer proclaims "I'll sing a psalm as I watch it burn / and the ashes I'll keep in a one-sided urn"; in that poem the speaker promises to do penance "with farts and groans / kneeling upon my marrowbones." He proclaimed "yet must thou unfold me unaware" since "thy Mithridates were, / framed to defy the poison dart." This poet praises the soul of Lucia, his "blueveined" daughter, as "paler than time's wan wave" in a poem about giving her a flower. He addressed a "star of evil! Star of pain!" and bemoans "highhearted youth" not "coming again" in his poem "Bahnhofstrasse," which he wrote in Zurich after he was diagnosed with glaucoma. This poet's brother Stanislaus helped start the claim that his first volume of poetry was titled for a place where one urinates. Chamber Music is by, for 10 points, what author, whose other book of poetry is Pomes Pennyeach?
An invective poem by this writer proclaims "I'll sing a psalm as I watch it burn / and the ashes I'll keep in a one-sided urn"; in that poem the speaker promises to do penance "with farts and groans / kneeling upon my marrowbones."
James Joyce [or James Augustine Aloysius Joyce]