That poem is Frank O'Hara's "Why I Am Not [one of these people]."
A poem about this profession sees the speaker ask "Where's SARDINES?" and sees him describe writing 12 poems about "orange." That poem is Frank O'Hara's "Why I Am Not [one of these people]." Another poem that references this profession begins by referencing "the right hand/Bigger than the head." That John Ashbery poem also quotes from Vasari. A poem that describes "how everything turns away quite leisurely from the disaster" draws on the work of one of these men and begins, "About suffering they were never wrong, the old Masters." For 10 points, name this profession, discussed in "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" and Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts," which is based on Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.
A poem about this profession sees the speaker ask "Where's SARDINES?" and sees him describe writing 12 poems about "orange."
{painter}s [or {paint}ing or {art}ists, but don’t accept things like {sculptor} or {fireman}]