Another poem by this author describes "the arches and entrances" of "seven houses" that have "learned to face one another" and "mastered the lesson of remaining closed."
A villanelle by this writer describes its subject having "blown on a blue horn, full of sound and fury / but signifying, o signifying magnificently / the boredom, and the horror, and the glory." Another poem by this author describes "the arches and entrances" of "seven houses" that have "learned to face one another" and "mastered the lesson of remaining closed." That poem by this man mentions three clouds that are "not public like mountains' but private like companions'." This author wrote poems about Robert Boardman Vaughan and a painting by "Patient B." He imagined the title figures rediscovering "the face of the boy as he practices tying his father's tie" in a poem centering on people who "learn to close softly, the doors to rooms they will not be coming back to." For 10 points, name this New Formalist author of "Men at Forty," who won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for his Selected Poems.
A villanelle by this writer describes its subject having "blown on a blue horn, full of sound and fury / but signifying, o signifying magnificently / the boredom, and the horror, and the glory."
Donald Justice