Without losing my own".
This author wrote a poem whose speaker excoriates: "You found with all your boasted wisdom / How hard at the last it is / To keep the soul from splitting into cellular atoms". He wrote a poem in which an abandoned game of checkers precedes a dialogue between Yogarindra, Loki, and Beelzebub. The speaker of one poem by him concludes: "Degenerate sons and daughters / Life is too strong for you-- / It takes life to love Life". One poem by him begins: "Henry got me with (*) child, / Knowing that I could not bring forth life / Without losing my own". The lines "Bloom forever, O Republic, / From the dust of my bosom!" is spoken by a mistress of Abraham Lincoln in a poem by him. He described a man who "babbles of the fish-fry of long ago / Of the horse-races long ago at Clary's Grove" in the opening of one collection, which declares "All, all are sleeping on the hill". For 10 points, name this American author of the Spoon River Anthology.
This author wrote a poem whose speaker excoriates: "You found with all your boasted wisdom / How hard at the last it is / To keep the soul from splitting into cellular atoms".
Edgar Lee Masters