In his most famous poem, he wrote of his "wet fur" freezing after falling from his "mother's sleep" to "black flak and the nightmare fighters" and stated that "when I died they washed me out. . .
This poet wrote a poem that opened "It was not dying: everybody died" calledLosses. In another poem, he declared that the title figure "look[s] back at the leopardlike the leopard" but that "the world goes by my cage and never sees me". Thisauthor wrote a novel about the creative writing instructor (+) Mrs. Batterson andthe twelve-tone composer Gottfried Rosenbaum teaching at a women's college. This author of The Woman at the Washington Zoo wrote satirically of Benton in (*) Pictures from an Institution. In his most famous poem, he wrote of his "wet fur" freezing after falling from his "mother's sleep" to "black flak and the nightmare fighters" and stated that "when I died they washed me out. . . with a hose". For ten points, name this American poet of The Death of a Ball Turret Gunner.
This poet wrote a poem that opened "It was not dying: everybody died" calledLosses.
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