And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name" wrote a book-length poem describing an "affirmation that doesn't affirm anything," captured by "the right hand / Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer," in a Parmigianino painting.
In a poem by this author, the speaker and his lover are surrounded by "a silence already filled with noises, / A canvas on which emerges / A chorus of smiles, a winter morning," as they observe objects that each join "a neighbor, as though speech / Were a still performance." This author wrote that poetry is generated by "the extreme austerity of an almost empty mind / Colliding with the lush, Rousseau-like foliage of its desire to communicate / Something between breaths," in a poem titled for a dictum from Horace's Ars Poetica. W.H. Auden admitted to not (*) understanding a word of the manuscript when he voted to award the 1956 Yale Younger Poets Prize to this author's first collection, Some Trees. This author of "And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name" wrote a book-length poem describing an "affirmation that doesn't affirm anything," captured by "the right hand / Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer," in a Parmigianino painting. For 10 points, name this ninety-year old poet of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
In a poem by this author, the speaker and his lover are surrounded by "a silence already filled with noises, / A canvas on which emerges /
John Ashbery